American - Asian American & Pacific Islander

  • By: Yanyi

    The Year of Blue Water: Volume 113

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    Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

    “Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer and tran

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    • Series: Yale Younger Poets #113
    • Author: Yanyi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 26 2019
    • ISBN10: 0300242646
    • Language: English
  • Whale Aria

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    “For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue,” recounts Rajiv Mohabir’s speaker in “Boy with Baleen for Teeth.” As formally visionary and acoustic… [more below]

    • Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245688
    • Language: English
  • Yellow Rain: Poems

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    WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
    FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK

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    • Author: Vang, Mai Der
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 21 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450658
    • Language: English
  • Locus

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    Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In Locus, Jason Bayani’s poetry explores the e… [more below]

    • Author: Bayani, Jason
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 15 2019
    • ISBN10: 1632430630
    • Language: English
  • They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets

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    At a time when institutional policies have sought to silence, marginalize, deport, or otherwise erase the existences of women of color, our poets have never been less silent. This anthology aims to sp

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    • Author: Kitano, Christine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: June 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 099750403X
    • Language: English
  • Foreign Bodies: Poems

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    Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s M?ter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignific

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    • Author: Hahn, Kimiko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: February 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 0393882446
    • Language: English
  • Oculus: Poems

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    FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY

    A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle–starring the film legend Anna May Wong

    In Oculus, Sally Wen Ma

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    • Author: Mao, Sally Wen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 15 2019
    • ISBN10: 1555978258
    • Language: English
  • Thousand Star Hotel

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    Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor.

    From “with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan”

    They gi

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    • Author: Phi, Bao
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894700
    • Language: English
  • The Undressing: Poems

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    A breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since t

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    • Author: Lee, Li-Young
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 03 2020
    • ISBN10: 0393357872
    • Language: English
  • When I Reach for Your Pulse

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    In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent’s suicide. “When my father finally / died,” Vyas writes, “we […] burned, / like

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    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Vyas, Rushi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245548
    • Language: English
  • Landlock X: Poems

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    Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X, joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experience–her own–Audsley’s coll… [more below]

    • Author: Audsley, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 70
    • Publish Date: February 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1680033050
    • Language: English
  • Settling St. Malo

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    Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States–when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and desig… [more below]

    • Author: Gonzales, Randy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 119
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1959569031
    • Language: English
  • Gospel of a Whole Sun

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    From community activist and poet Katerina Jeng, a lyric exploration of the author’s journey back to her voice, her power, and the truest version of herself.

    Gospel of a Whole Sun is a moving collectio

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    • Author: Jeng, Katerina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1524889806
    • Language: English
  • They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

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    In 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Cen… [more below]

    • Author: Baker-Gard, Shelley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: June 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 0870712357
    • Language: English
  • Moving the Bones

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    A vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.

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    • Author: Barot, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1571315640
    • Language: English
  • Alemany Bay Window / Redwood Coast Record Crate

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    Alemany Bay Window / Redwood Coast Record Crate is David Maduli’s dual poetry collection rooted in the physical, cultural, and emotional geographies of a shifting San Francisco Bay Area. Side A tracks

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    • Author: Maduli, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 86
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1965439004
    • Language: English
  • In Praise of Late Wonder

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    • Author: Herrick, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1957062177
    • Language: English
  • The Diaspora Sonnets

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    In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Oliver de la Paz’s father, in a last fit of desperation to leave the Philippines, threw his papers at an immigration clerk, hoping to get them sta… [more below]

    • Author: de la Paz, Oliver
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 04 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324095172
    • Language: English
  • Feeding the Ghosts: Poems

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    • Author: Mehta, Rahul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0813198801
    • Language: English
  • Anon

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    A collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal “at once” between desire and language.

    From the playful verses of Slovenia’s Tomaz Salamun to the brushstrokes of an E

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    • Author: Terazawa, Sophia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646052218
    • Language: English
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