Not Your Mama's Melting Pot

2017 Backwaters Prize Winner: The voice in Kingsley's poems mines history, explores family, sings hardships, and wanders the planet. These poems delight and explore deep attachments to others and manage to paint rich stories from numerous directions all at once.

About the author

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley is not the Ben Kingsley best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, having not acted since his third-grade debut as the Undertaker in Music Man. Affrilachian author and Kundiman alum, Ben is currently the 22nd Tickner Writing Fellow and recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His next collection, Colonize Me, is forthcoming with Saturnalia in 2019, followed by Demos, with Milkweed Editions in 2020. Peep his recent work in the anthologies Best New Poets 2017 (ed. Natalie Diaz), Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry from North America, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, as well as the journals American Indian Culture and Research, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Oxford American, and Tin House, among others.
 

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
• Publisher: Backwaters Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2018
• EAN: 9781935218494
• ISBN: 978-1-935218-49-4
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Backwaters Prize; The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerika, Lyrik, Poesie, Poetry, Bezug zu Latino-Amerikanern, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Native American, POETRY / American / Hispanic American