Monica Gunning

America, My New Home (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Condon, Ken

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring. In twenty-three compelling poems, Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tells her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder. She describes a place where skyscrapers, rather than the moon, light the night; where people dress in woolens, ready for snow; where no one knows your name. Yet this same place offers exciting treasures: dizzying amusement park rides, stirring symphony concerts, flashy circus performers, towering cathedrals, and captivating art museums that speak to those who linger. Above all, this new land is place where "hope glows, a beacon / guiding ocean-deep dreamers / from storm surfs to shore."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Astra Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: ab 2 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629791715
• Artikelnr.: 43592124

Autorenporträt

Born in Jamaica, children's book author Monica Gunning moved to New York City when she was 18 years old. She earned her BA from the City University of New York and her M.S.Ed. from Mount St. Mary's College and studied at the University of Guadalajara. Gunning has authored Under the Breadfruit Tree: Island Poems (1998), Not a Copper Penny in Me House: Poems from the Caribbean (1999), America, My New Home (2013), and A Shelter in Our Car (2013), among others. Her poetry frequently invokes images of the Caribbean as well as immigrant experiences. She lives in Laguna Niguel, California, and has worked as a bilingual teacher.