Asian American & Pacific Islander

  • Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains: Poems

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    Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly “lush” and “charming” Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the communist

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  • Oceanic

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    With an encyclopedic range of subjects, Nezukumatathil takes a wide-angle look at our planet, its vulnerabilities, and the human condition.

    • Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 1556595263
    • Language: English
  • Decade of the Brain: Poems

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    In the deeply personal Decade of the Brain, Janine Joseph writes of a newly-naturalized American citizen who suffers from post-concussive memory loss after a major auto accident.

    The collection is an

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    • Author: Joseph, Janine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948579308
    • Language: English
  • Buffalo Girl

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    In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Stark, Jessica Q.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950774880
    • Language: English
  • Conversation Among Stones

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    Awakening to histories personal and social, Conversation Among Stones is a meditation on memory and identity.

    Through fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin’

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    • Series: New Poets of America #51
    • Author: Lin, Willie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1960145045
    • Language: English
  • Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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    A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.

    • Author: Vuong, Ocean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 106
    • Publish Date: June 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 1556595859
    • Language: English
  • Sage: Poems

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    In her galvanizing sixth collection of poems, Marilyn Chin once again turns moral outrage into unforgettable art. A rambunctious take on our contemporary condition, Sage shifts skillfully in tone and

    • Author: Chin, Marilyn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 02, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324050152
    • Language: English
  • ten-cent flower & other territories

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    ten-cent flower & other territories explores what is lost in lineage, translation, transaction, and seeks reclamation through mapping. Through etymologies of place names and monuments and godheads to

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    • Author: Yoro, Charity E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 98
    • Publish Date: September 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1958600059
    • Language: English
  • Ward Toward: Volume 118

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    Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation

    “Ok’s m?ier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies.”–David W

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    • Series: Yale Younger Poets
    • Author: Ok, Cindy Juyoung
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0300273924
    • Language: English
  • Contradictions in the Design

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    “Matthew Olzmann’s poetry is that rare thing that embraces complication while, at every turn, filling us with wonder. Contradictions in the Design incorporates ‘patterns among celestial bodies, the my

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    • Author: Olzmann, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: November 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1938584279
    • Language: English
  • West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

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    The New York Times has called Mary Oliver’s poems “thoroughly convincing – as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” In this stunning collection of forty poems – ni

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    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 26 2011
    • ISBN10: 0395850851
    • Language: English
  • Letters to a Young Brown Girl

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    Reyes’s unapologetic intersectionally feminist “tough love” poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Reyes, Barbara Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: September 22 2020
    • ISBN10: 1950774171
    • Language: English
  • Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa

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    Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.

    This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed ev

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    • Author: Chase, Marilyn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1452174407
    • Language: English
  • Not Here

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    Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history–all dissected fearlessly.

    • Author: Nguyen, Hieu Minh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 156689509X
    • Language: English
  • Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible

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    Revealing rarely seen work alongside her iconic looped-wire sculptures, this catalogue celebrates Ruth Asawa’s unique vision and intimate subject matter.

    Known for her intricate and distinct artistic

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    • Author: Asawa, Ruth
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 164423078X
    • Language: English
  • The Curious Thing: Poems

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    Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of

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    • Author: Lim, Sandra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1324066180
    • Language: English
  • Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works

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    In 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
  • Sana

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    Sana 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

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    • Author: Bolaño, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 60
    • Publish Date: April 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798985771206
    • Language: English
  • Muscle Memory

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    Jenny 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

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    • Author: Liou, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1885030800
    • Language: English
  • Nothing Follows

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    The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document
    establishing the beginning of a refugee family’s time in the United States. At
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