Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize fo
Poetry. A COMMUNION OF SAINTS takes us on a harrowing trek through denial, descent, and resurrection in the Honolulu gay community of the 1980s. This book of prose poems, each glossed with a Biblical
Poetry. Norman Fischer's long poem takes as its place CHARLOTTE'S WAY, a house on the California coast, but mostly the poem takes things in. Fischer, a Zen priest, meditates on talk, the passing of ti
Poetry. "Kaia Sand's REMEMBER TO WAVE maps the temporal palimpsests and traumatic political history of Portland, Oregon. Sand writes the seen and unseen city in the spirit of William Carlos Williams's
Poetry. With this volume, Tinfish Press moves from its usual concentration on the Pacific as a cultural and historical space to that of a spiritual trans-historical one. In his preface to the book, Ze
Poetry. Asian American Studies. In THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE BUS, Gizelle Gajelonia discovers her muse in Honolulu's TheBus mass transit system. She takes seriously (in this seriously funny chap
Poetry. Elizabeth Soto's is a beautiful elegy to an artist who suffered schizophrenia, as well as an examination of mental illness and suicide. It is also a love poem. "What do I remember?" she asks;
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Yunte Huang in a bilingual edition. In his poem, "Poetry Cannot Fix You" Yu Xinqiao asserts that poetry can fix many things, just not the self or
Poetry. Translation. Asian Studies. This book consists of 81 poems by 29 poets from China. 23 of them were born after 1970, 15 were born in or after 1980, with the youngest one born in 2006. Editor an
Poetry. Many brilliant works of art are two-toned; consider the upbeat melody to Charles Mingus's Fables of Faubus, an otherwise bitter screed against segregation and racism. Or consider the chirpy so
Poetry. Asian American. A gorgeous chapbook of translations made by the renowned poet and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, CARVED WATER is the fifth book in English by acclaimed aut
Poetry. Translated from the Chinese by Henry Wei Leung. PEI PEI THE MONKEY KING, Wawa's first book, is a playful book about painful subjects in contemporary Hong Kong, namely the Umbrella Revolution o
Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by Goro Takano. Shiro Murano (1901 -1975) was a Japanese Modernist poet, influenced by other poets from Basho to Rilke to T.S. Eliot. His poems fulfill Eliot's edi
Poetry. In her debut collection BOOK OF CORD, Leona Chen confronts the loss of Taiwanese identity through colonization and emigration. As she acknowledges her heritage and claims herself as Taiwanese
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. For over a decade now, Kaia Sand has been making magic with her ethical documentary poetry and prose around our globe's fragile ecology, economies and sites of resistance.
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun, Paul B. Roth, and Gillian Parrish. "Longtime factory-worker and Buddhist practitioner, Yang Jian is considered by Chines
Poetry. Jules Boykoff is a serious man. Jules Boykoff is a critic of global capitalism, especially as manifest in the Olympic movement, about which he has written three important books. Jules Boykoff
