American Copia: An Immigrant Epic

"Today I'm going to the grocery store," begins this creative fusion of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. This is also the sentence Javier O. Huerta was given to write during his naturalization interview. Having lived in the U.S. for twenty years already, he was put off by the simplicity of the sentence. "I wanted to tell the INS agent that I could do things with the English language that she could never imagine," he writes in the preface.

In this innovative work that uses grocery stores as a ...