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Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works
$34.93 Read moreIn her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the… [more below]
- Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 520391594
- Language: English
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Sana
$20.00 Add to cartSana sings of the ways in which myth becomes life: how we invent our own selves, our memories of home, our relationship with family, our understanding of love. These poems are at once stories of migra
- Author: Bolaño, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: April 10 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985771206
- Language: English
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Muscle Memory
$18.95 Add to cartJenny Liou’s debut poetry collection conjoins the world of cage fighting and the traumas of immigration
In Muscle Memory, Washington-based poet Jenny Liou grapples with violence and identity, beginning
- Author: Liou, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1885030800
- Language: English
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My Heart of Rice: A Poetic Filipino American Experience
$14.99 Add to cartThrough vivid and rhythmic poetry, My Heart of Rice moves to empower anyone who may have a difficult or unconventional relationship with their cultural identity. While Lanuza encourages acceptance of
- Author: Lanuza, Ashley C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: February 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1641373717
- Language: English
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Tethered to Stars: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021
A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos–intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.
Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tong
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315349
- Language: English
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Barbie Chang
$17.00 Add to cartBarbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asian American experience to mythic levels.
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1556595166
- Language: English
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Tell It Slant
$22.95 Add to cartPoems that consider doubleness and truth-telling through the voice of an Asian American poet, while referencing a range of writers and pop culture figures.
Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems wit- Author: Yau, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 73
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1632431254
- Language: English
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Burying the Mountain
$16.00 Add to cartIn Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indi… [more below]
- Author: Fang, Shangyang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1556596146
- Language: English
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Some Are Always Hungry
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Thro… [more below]
- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Yun, Jihyun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222180
- Language: English
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That Blue Trickster Time
$18.00 Add to cartIn revisiting her family’s history during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Amy Uyematsu’s latest collection, That Blue Trickster Time, is a powerful affirmation of Asian Americans
- Author: Uyematsu, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0996227695
- Language: English
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From Unincorporated Territory [Hacha]
$17.95 Add to cartfrom unincorporated territory hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Gu han (Guam). Perez weaves avant-… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Craig Santos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1632430495
- Language: English
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Floating, Brilliant, Gone
$17.00 Add to cartIn her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Beginning in loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone expl… [more below]
- Author: Choi, Franny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1938912438
- Language: English
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Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire
$15.00 Add to cartAmbitious and emotionally complex, Michelle Pe aloza’s debut poetry collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, explores grief and violence, the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality
- Author: Penaloza, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: August 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1732403252
- Language: English
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Asterism: Poems
$19.95 Add to cart“What does it mean to seek a life beyond belonging? Traveling through rich landscapes of memory, Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism retraces the poet’s lineage from South Korea to Peru to the United States, restle… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Ae Hee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1961209012
- Language: English
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The Continual Condition: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”
–Joyce Carol Oates
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”
–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Arguably the most imitated and influential American poet of th
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 006177121X
- Language: English
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Dear Diaspora
$17.95 Add to cartOutstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies
Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with
New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Winner
Julie Suk Award Finalist- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Nguyen, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496227905
- Language: English
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Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50: Poems
$16.00 Add to cart“One of our brightest talents.”-ISHMAEL REED
- Author: Roripaugh, Lee Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1571314857
- Language: English
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Hydra Medusa
$17.95 Read moreA book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.
Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed whi
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621718
- Language: English
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The City in Which I Love You
$19.99 Add to cartContents
I.
Furious Versionis II.
The Interrogation
This Hour And What Is Dead
Arise, Go Down
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
For A New Citizen Of These United States
With Ruins III.
This Room And E- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: June 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0918526833
- Language: English
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Master
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes.
The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past. Mast- Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
- Author: Shieh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1956046216
- Language: English
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