Adrian Castro's The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping was published in which year?

• A. 2005
• B. 1987
• C. 1963
• D. 1883

Answer: (A)

Knowing when a work was published helps you place it in the author’s timeline and in literary history. The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping is a poetry collection by Adrian Castro that is widely identified as coming out in 2005. That year fits the era when Castro’s voice on immigration, identity, and diaspora was becoming prominent in contemporary poetry, and it matches bibliographic records and the reception around the work at the time.

The other years don’t align with the book’s publication history or with the timeline of the author’s career. They’re far earlier than when this collection appeared, so they don’t reflect when the work actually entered print.