Florence Anthony (born 1947) is an American poet. She has legally changed her name to Ai, the Japanese word for "love".
Of course, she's "American" in tone, culture, character, mien, and all, but given America's obsession with racial categories, how should we catogorize Ai? please assist.
She was born in Albany, Texas but grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her ancestry is part Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, African American, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche.
Her brief bio is here: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/268
Some of her poems that include "Conversations" and "Grandfather says": are here: http://www.poemhunter.com/ai/
2007-06-19
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