Ai (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
The poet now known as Ai was born Florence Anthony in Albany, Texas, on October 21, 1947. Her mother was sixteen at the time, and married, but Ai was born out of wedlock. She did not know who her father was until she was twenty-six.
Ai's ancestry was a mixture of Choctaw, Caucasian, Japanese, and Filipino. Although Anthony clearly looked black, as did her mother, she found it difficult in early life to identify with any particular ethnic group. She was born at her grandparents’ house after her mother's husband had found out about his wife's affair and had...
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