Asian American & Pacific Islander

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596322Author Victoria ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems. Two Brown Dots explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988355085Author Sennah YeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Metatron PressPublisher Metatron PressWeight(grams) 82g

This is a book about Americans. Not the ones brunching in Park Slope or farming in Wranglers or trading synergies in a boardroom; they are not executives or socialites. They are not the salt of the earth. Nor are they huddled masses yearning to breathe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594069Author Tung-Hui HuFormat PaperbackPage Count 67Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632430915Author Damon PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint OmnidawnPublisher OmnidawnWeight(grams) 152g

When Justine Chan worked as a park ranger at Zion National Park, she chose to retell a Southern Paiute folktale for her weekly evening program on coyotes. The more that long, hot summer unfolded, the more time she spent alone in the desert, the more she...

A collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal phrase akin to the feeling of two people, two languages, two migratory histories meeting “at once” between desire and exile. From the playful verses of Tomaž Šalamun to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880891Author David S. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945680472Author Yun WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint White Pine PressPublisher White Pine Press

A Plucked Zither explores what happens to language and thus emotions and relationships under conditions of migration, specifically refugee migration from Vietnam, and its aftermath. Crisscrossing between making a home in the U.S. and home in Vietnam, the...

Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani's poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake in the River and Shedding Silence epitomizes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637680087Author Sean Cho A.Format PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Autumn House PressPublisher Autumn House PressWeight(grams) 5g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596469Author Julian GewirtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594625Author Ha JinFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525656517Author Amit MajmudarFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win’s second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt used to...

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, / Return is engaged in the...

There is a proverb in China, hu kou ba ya, literally ""pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth,"" used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age thirty-one, her desire to write poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528441Author Larissa LaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

This poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship. With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family. Dipika Mukherjee's poems redefine belonging and...

In Sawako Nakayasu's first poetry collection in seven years, an unsettling diaspora of "girls" is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo-slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591006Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)...

A book of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The poet, a daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, navigates the epigenetics of trauma passed down, and across, the...

The Old Philosopher is enigmatic, sexual, biblical, anachronistic, political, and personal all at once. These quiet, implosive poems inhabit a nonlinear temporality in which Vi Khi Nao brings biblical time and political time together in the same poetic...

Fence poetry editor and rising star Michael Chang's Almanac of Useless Talents is a must-read for poetry lovers and newbies alike. This is a useless Almanac. There's no seasonal data, only poems good for leaving the club in haute couture with mid-level...

OBB a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy has many identities: it is a comics poem and a manifesto on comics poetry; an experimental comic book sequel to a poem twenty years in the making; and an homage to the Mimeo Revolution, weird fiction, kamishibai, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594953Author Ocean VuongFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forces--from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020517Author Albert AbonadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

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 with the chain-link enclosure of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137740Author Adrienne ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625578235Author Kirun KapurFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Bayani's third poetry collection considers how we might cultivate life in times of oppression and upheaval. With this collection of poems, Jason Bayani leans into traditions of lyric, song, and prayer to cultivate life while existing within a time of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946604156Author Masaoka ShikiFormat PaperbackImprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593802038Author Garrett HongoFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 178mm...