The Star-Spangled Banner

The Star-Spangled Banner
By:Denise Duhamel
Published on 1999-04-16 by SIU Press

The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of |The Star-Spangled Banner| as |José, can you see?|, which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what |yes| means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's |Nick at Nite| with a husband who grew up in the Philippines and never saw The Patty Duke Show; misreading another poet's title |The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke| as |The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope| and concluding that |Pepsi is all for premarital sex. / The Pope won't stain your teeth.| Misunderstandings also abound as characters mingle with others from different classes. In |Cockroaches,| a father-in-law refers to budget-minded American college students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, not realizing his daughter-in-law was once, not so long ago, such a student/roach herself. With welcome levity and refreshing irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses issues of ethnicity, class, and gender in America.

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