Asian American & Pacific Islander

  • 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

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    An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat

    In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across t

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    • Author: Le, Nam
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593537203
    • Language: English
  • The City in Which I Love You

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    Contents

    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

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    • Series: American Poets Continuum
    • Author: Lee, Li-Young
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 89
    • Publish Date: June 01 1990
    • ISBN10: 0918526833
    • Language: English
  • Master

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    Winner 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

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    • Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
    • Author: Shieh, Simon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956046216
    • Language: English
  • Rose

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    Table of Contents

    I.
    Epistle
    The Gift
    Persimmons
    The Weight Of Sweetness
    From Blossoms
    Dreaming Of Hair
    Early In The Morning
    Water
    Falling: The Code
    Nocturne
    My Indigo
    Irises
    Eating Alone

    II.
    Always A Rose

    III.
    Eati

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    • Series: New Poets of America
    • Author: Lee, Li-Young
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 71
    • Publish Date: March 01 1993
    • ISBN10: 0918526531
    • Language: English
  • How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

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    Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, s

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    • Author: Wong, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 1948579219
    • Language: English
  • Pisces Urges

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    Czaerra Galicinao Ucol blends emotion, wit, and water sign wisdom in their debut collection, Pisces Urges. They reckon with the hard-earned blessing of being known, the tumult of friendship in all of

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    • Author: Galicinao Ucol, Czaerra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798985771282
    • Language: English
  • Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints

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    Keiko Hara offers a detailed exploration of the prolific artist’s unwavering commitment to painting, and her unique form of Japanese woodblock printmaking. Rich with metaphorical imagery, Hara’s visua

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    • Author: Tesner, Linda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: November 28 2022
    • ISBN10: 0874224217
    • Language: English
  • Mouth: Eats Color — Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals

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    Poetry, Translation. Ten poems by Sagawa Chika are conveyed into English and other languages through a variety of translation techniques and procedures, some of them producing multilingual poems. Lang… [more below]

    • Author: Nakayasu, Sawako
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: October 17 2011
    • ISBN10: 0975446851
    • Language: English
  • Return

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    Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.

    Rooted in the classical tradition of

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    • Author: Luan, Emily Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621742
    • Language: English
  • DMZ Colony

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    WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

    “Don Mee Choi’s urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share on

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    • Author: Choi, Don Mee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 194069695X
    • Language: English
  • Auguries of Innocence

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    Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerfu

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    • Author: Smith, Patti
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: June 10 2008
    • ISBN10: 0060832673
    • Language: English
  • Feast

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    Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry

    Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award

    At times located in the Philippines, at others in the United States, the speaker of these poems is curious about how home c

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    • Author: Cari?o, Ina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948579316
    • Language: English
  • The World Doesn’t End: A Pulitzer Prize Winner

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

    “One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book Review

    You never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line

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    • Series: Harvest Book
    • Author: Simic, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 18 2011
    • ISBN10: 0156983508
    • Language: English
  • Sight Lines

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    Sze, in drawing connections between the pastoral and the catastrophic, speaks to a contemporary condition in which we are constantly fragmented and made whole again as we are presented with a saturati… [more below]

    • Author: Sze, Arthur
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 155659559X
    • Language: English
  • The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

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    Jackie Wang’s magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.

    • Author: Wang, Jackie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 1643620363
    • Language: English
  • Dictee

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    Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author’s original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian A[more below]

    • Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 178
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 0520390474
    • Language: English
  • English as a Second Language and Other Poems

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    Warm tenderness and fiery critique sit side-by-side in Bolina’s English as A Second Language, a collection that skewers, laments, and celebrates America with intelligence, humility, and a disarming se[more below]

    • Author: Bolina, Jaswinder
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 155659657X
    • Language: English
  • Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

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    Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)

    From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes “a warmly

    • Author: Chew-Bose, Durga
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 11, 2017
    • ISBN10: 0374535957
    • Language: English
  • Aina Hanau / Birth Land: Volume 92

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    ‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. ‘Āina hānau–or the land of one’s birt… [more below]

    • Series: Sun Tracks
    • Author: McDougall, Brandy Nalani
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 0816548358
    • Language: English
  • The Rupture Tense: Poems

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    * 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES BOOK AWARD WINNER *
    * FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY *
    * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BALCONES PRIZE FOR POETRY *

    The astounding second collection by Je

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    • Author: Xie, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644452014
    • Language: English
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