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...Will Always Stay Me: Writing of Migrant Children would seem an ideal opportunity for a soapbox edition of children's poetry. A collaboration between Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, and Sherry Kafka, a former Loeb Fellow, the anthology was born in a creative workshop program in South Texas elementary and high schools, where most of the students are from Mexican immigrant families and speak English as a foreign language. And yet Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing...
What Coles and Kafka offer is definitely something more than a poetry anthology-it is a refreshing approach to social studies. The book actually examines Mexican immigrant culture in South Texas through the eyes of its children, its most honest and innocent citizens. Aged six to 17, the children reveal about their lives everything from their daily activities of school and migrant from labor to the many shocking realities they must face, as well as their ambitions for and fears of the future...
Much of I Will Always Stay Me has an unnerving quality. Coles and Kafka have organized the material into a kind of generic mental process, in which the subjects gradually progress from nature and animals to more shocking views of drug abuse, and finally toward an inner view of the children's mental development and emotions. On the concrete level, the poems on nature vary from abstract haiku about the moon and the stars to short descriptive passages about the fearful side of nature...
...Fiction, Ideology, and Myth: The Novel in the Twentieth Century," but sells nine of them at the same price as the Coop, and one for a dollar more. WordsWorth 2 has only two of the 13 works--The Counterfeiters by Andre' Gide, and The Castle by Franz Kafka--but undersells the Coop by a combined total of $7 for the pair...
...Cardwell, and Jacob M. Schiesinger compiled this report. Selected Books Book, Author (Course) Coop Harvard Book Store Paper-Back Book Smith WordsWorth WordsWorth 2 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (Lit & Arts A-11) $4.95 3.95 -- -- 2.95 The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide (Lit & Arts A-19) 4.95 4.95 4.95 -- 1.95 The Castle, Franz Kafka (Lit & Arts A-19) 5.95 -- 5.95 3.36 1.95 The Best of the Achaeans Gregory Nagy (Lit & Arts C-14) 7.95 7.95 -- -- -- The Wordly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner (Social Analysis 10) 7.95 7.95 -- 6.43 3.47 Off the Record, Robert H. Ferrell (History 1628) 6.95 -- 6.95 6.26 -- Dispatches, Michael Herr (History...