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Select  one  poem from this week’s assigned readings, and identify at least three elements in the poem that you found interesting or engaging (e.g., form, language, content, and/or other literary elements).  Then, assess how these elements affected your response to the poem, in its entirety.  (e.g., Did these elements affect your opinions on (or reaction to) the content of the poem?  Did they cause you to focus on one aspect of the poem over others?)   Assignment Requirements

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Child of the Americas

Aurora Levins Morales (1986)

I am a child of the Americas, a light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean, a child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads. I am a U.S. Puerto Rican Jew,
a product of the ghettos of New York I have never known. An immigrant and the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants. I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness, a flashing knife blade of cristal, my tool, my craft. I am Caribeña, island grown. Spanish is my flesh,	5
Ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips: the language of garlic and mangoes, the singing of poetry, the flying gestures of my hands. I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent: I speak from that body.	10
I am not African. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taína. Taíno is in me, but there is no way back. I am not European. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there. I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish. I was born at the crossroads and	15
I am whole.	20
From Aurora Levins Morales, “Child of the Americas,” from Aurora Levins Moralesand Rosario Morales, Getting Home Alive (Firebrand Books,