In a time when immigration stirs up so much angry debate, it's refreshing to read Mary Haines's level-headed poems about her Polish ancestors putting down roots in America. Who Are You from Home? traces a family history that bears out Maya Angelou's comment: "If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going." Haines says something similar in "Departure, April 1891"-"The heart without a compass, stalls."...
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