"Ten writers from home and abroad will join former
poet laureate Robert Hass in discussing their work at Chatham
University's "Bridges to Other Worlds: An International Literary
Festival."…
…Also participating are Pittsburgh's Samuel Hazo,
poet, novelist, translator and founder of the International Poetry
Forum, and Derek Green, a journalist and author of "New World Order"
from Autumn House Press of Pittsburgh."
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…"While the reader may only
get bits and pieces of what it’s like to live in Baghdad, or Mexico,
they get a bigger dose of what it feels like to be an expat (and I may
be underselling how well Green does capture the culture of these
locales). The confusion, and combinations of greed and fear, and
of both the shame and pride in America. New World Order
is a really solid collection, with no stories added to bulk up the
overall size. Green is a writer I’ll be keeping an eye out for,
word is he’s working on a novel."
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