Asian American & Pacific Islander

Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks...

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692173077Author Phil KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Light Bulb Symphony PressPublisher Light Bulb Symphony PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781556595592Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594977Author Paisley RekdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949933260Author Jeddie SophroniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Codhill PressPublisher Codhill PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596995Author Jennifer ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960462329Author Ian CookFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Anamcara Press LLCPublisher Anamcara Press LLCWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as “Biddle City.” Through prose...

A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" in today's world. In this thoughtfully curated,...

A beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" in today's world. In this thoughtfully curated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960462312Author Ian CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Anamcara Press LLCPublisher Anamcara Press LLCWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912078Author Beau SiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 162gDimensions(mm)...

Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration The poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to disrupt this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450526Author Bunkong TuonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450502Author Nausheen EusufFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520429Author Yu Yan ChenFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935520467Author Jenna LeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609389512Author Stephanie ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630450069Author Bunkong TuonFormat PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625570413Author Raena ShiraliFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982636404Author Lawrence MatsudaFormat PaperbackImprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625570987Author Raena ShiraliFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625578198Author Jody ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 177g

"Whatever's smuggled into these poems--the Petronas Towers, Afghanistan cliffs, Lugers and New Jersey--obeys the abstract logic at the heart of descriptive writing: the sweet ease of writing's intangibility, its virtual tease." --Adam Fitzgerald, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935198864Author Arielle Taitano LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint University of Guam PressPublisher University of Guam PressWeight(grams) 186g

Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes that, accordingly, "many of my poems...

Against the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents' bodega in the Queensbridge projects, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins...

"[These] accumulated poems [are] a smoldering tragedy, a heady descent, songs from a pit where what glints may be gems or the moon off snake scales."--Douglas Kearney Sun Yung Shin's poems animate the elements of the epic poem and Korean history across...

In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Oliver de la Paz's father, in a last fit of desperation to leave the Philippines, threw his papers at an immigration clerk, hoping to get them stamped. He was prepared to leave, having already quit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258941Author Hanae JonasFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593300237Author Ocean VuongFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 127g

Garrett Hongo makes a literary inquiry into the century-long history of Japanese Americans, particularly in Hawaii and California, seeking answers to questions regarding the mosaics of American identity in the contexts of diaspora and postmodernism. His...

Crossover appeal / health and caregiving: Much of this collection focuses on the experiences of nurses and illness (the author's husband works at the Mayo Clinic) and the author intends to give readings in conjuction with The Baltimore Ronald McDonald...

Korea continues to grapple with the shared memory of its Japanese and US occupations. The poems in Ordinary Misfortunes incorporate actual testimony about cruelty against vulnerable bodies-including the wianbu, euphemistically known as "comfort women"-as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682010723Author Stan KusunokiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint North Star Press of Saint Cloud IncPublisher North Star Press of Saint Cloud...

Prageeta Sharma writes of the experiences of a class-displaced, first-generation Hindoo Romantic, and her landscapes and language follow cannily and whimsically from that position. An exploration of the compatibility of human desire with personal ethics...