Distinct from Thee: A Poem about Discrimination (Authentic Vegan Poetry Series)

by Ai

An autobiographical literary arts reflection on collective coordinated race, religion and gender discrimination targeted towards a young white Christian woman of nonsemitic European origin that destroyed her career and future in her chosen academic field and profession, despite the fact that she acquired postdoctoral level education and training from the world leading universities, in addition to having excelled in her studies and field and still can be considered as one of the most original and creative academics and scientists in this world.

Genres: Poetry

52 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2017

About the author

Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony) was an American poet who who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, 1/16 Irish and as well as Southern Cheyenne and Comanche. She is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. While her poems often contain sex, violence, and other subjects for which she received criticism, she stated during a 1978 interview that she did not view her use of them as gratuitous. About the poems in her first collection, Cruelty, she said: "I wanted people to see how they treated each other and themselves." In 1999 she won the National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.