Otherland: Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience

This book features ten poets, each with an American background and an active, creative engagement with Wales. The poetry deals with the ‘matter of Wales’ and the ‘matter’ of being Welsh-American, developed through divergent poetics and perspectives; as attuned to degrees of difference as those of connectedness; and, as attentive to cultural cross-currents as to the ‘other land’. The Otherland of Wales, Cymru,hen wlad fy nhadau, the mother ship - as perceived by Welsh, American, American-Welsh or Welsh-American poets. The poets include Jon Dressel, Denise Lever, William Greenway, William Virgil, Davies, Margot Farrington, Anne Stevenson, Sarah Kennedy, Margaret Lloyd, Joseph Clancy, and David Lloyd.