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by Vuong, Ocean

Book - 2022

Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in t...Show more Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented tragedies to find not a restoration, but the epicenter of the break. Show less

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If They Come for Us

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by Asghar, Fatimah

Book - 2018

Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father....Show more Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests itself in our relationships Show less

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In The Galleons, Rick Barot contextualizes the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism. In The Galleons, Rick Barot contextualizes the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism. Show less

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Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. With topics such as frustration wit...Show more Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. With topics such as frustration with our social and natural world, these poems openly question the self and place and how private experiences like motherhood and sorrow necessitate a deeper engagement with public life and history. Show less

All Heathens

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by Chan, Marianne

Book - 2020

All Heathens is a declaration of ownership—of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan’s voyage around the world, Marianne Chan navigates her Filipino heritage by grappling with notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. All Heathens is a declaration of ownership—of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan’s voyage around the world, Marianne Chan navigates her Filipino heritage by grappling with notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. Show less

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Obit

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by Chang, Victoria

Book - 2020

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. E-book (Hoopla) also available. After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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When I Grow up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities

by Chen, Chen

Book - 2017

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family-the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost...Show more In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family-the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes-all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. Show less

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DMZ Colony

by Choi, Don Mee

Book - 2020

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony explores Edward Said's notion of the intertwined and overlapping histories i...Show more Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony explores Edward Said's notion of the intertwined and overlapping histories in regards to South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics. Show less

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Soft Science

by Choi, Franny

Book - 2019

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, ...Show more Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness-how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. Show less

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Dance Dance Revolution

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by Hong, Cathy Park

Book - 2007

A genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city. A genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city. Show less

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The Sun and Her Flowers

by Kaur, Rupi

Book - 2017

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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A provocative and furious memoir in poems about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America. A provocative and furious memoir in poems about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America. Show less

The City in Which I Love You

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by Lee, Li-Young

Book - 1990

The City in Which I Love You, a remembrance of Lee’s childhood and his father, “weaves a remarkable web of memory from the multifarious fibers of his expe...Show more The City in Which I Love You, a remembrance of Lee’s childhood and his father, “weaves a remarkable web of memory from the multifarious fibers of his experience.” Lee’s “images are economical yet fluid, and his language is often startling for its brave honesty” (Publishers Weekly). E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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Isako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural...Show more Isako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical legacies of cultural trauma-internment, mass displacement and rampant racism-in the United States, and how it weaves together with current events. Show less

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With inquisitive flair, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth's wonderful and terrible magic. In her fourth collection of poetry, she studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself. With inquisitive flair, Aimee Nezhukumatathil creates a thorough registry of the earth's wonderful and terrible magic. In her fourth collection of poetry, she studies forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself. Show less

Ghost of

by Nguyen, Diana Khoi

Book - 2018

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family haunted by ghosts of war, trauma, and history. Nguyen’s ...Show more Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family haunted by ghosts of war, trauma, and history. Nguyen’s debut is not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. Show less

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Not Here

by Nguyen, Hieu Minh

Book - 2018

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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Thousand Star Hotel

by Phi, Bao

Book - 2017

Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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Tonguebreaker, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the...Show more Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's Queens neighborhood. Show less

Nightingale

by Rekdal, Paisley

Book - 2019

By radically rewriting myths central to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Paisley Rekdal contemporizes Ovid’s tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragment...Show more By radically rewriting myths central to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Paisley Rekdal contemporizes Ovid’s tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation. A series of connected poems trace the continuing effects of sexual violence and rape on survivors, where nightmares mix with images of empathy, and hope emerges from the dark forest of memory. E-book (Hoopla) also available. Show less

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Letters To A Young Brown Girl, by Barbara Jane Reyes

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Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligen...Show more Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector. The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She's flipping tables and throwing chairs. She's raising her voice. She's keeping a sharp focus on the violence committed against her every day, and she's writing through the depths of her "otherness" to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Show less

That Was Now, This Is Then

Poems

by Seshadri, Vijay

Book - 2020

That Was Now, This Is Then takes on the planar paradoxes of time and space, destabilizing highly tuned lyrics and elegies with dizzying turns in poems of unrequitable longing, of longing for longing, of longing to be found, of grief. That Was Now, This Is Then takes on the planar paradoxes of time and space, destabilizing highly tuned lyrics and elegies with dizzying turns in poems of unrequitable longing, of longing for longing, of longing to be found, of grief. Show less

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Look

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by Sharif, Solmaz

Book - 2016

Look asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this vi...Show more Look asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family’s and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Show less

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Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summo...Show more Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma. In doing so she shows that grief, frustrating to logic and yet as real as any experience we might know, is ripe for the sort of intellectual and emotional processing of which poetry is most capable. Show less

Even This Page Is White, by Vivek Shraya

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A bold and timely interrogation of skin, its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the...Show more A bold and timely interrogation of skin, its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible and undeniable. Show less