Asian American & Pacific Islander

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize"Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer and trans perspective."-Publishers Weekly2020 Lambda Literary...

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

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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) 358g

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

The poems in WHALE AND VAPOR emphasize exhaustion--physically, mentally, and as an existential condition. Kim Kyung Ju playfully turns toward the lyric in this work as a way to reconcile himself with the contemporary world by engaging in dialogue with...

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 PaperbackImprint NYQ BooksPublisher NYQ BooksWeight(grams) 113g

The Lengest Neoi embraces and complicates what it means to err—to wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. Beginning with the collection’s title, which combines a colloquial Cantonese phrase (Leng...

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 9781625570987Author Raena ShiraliFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 308g

"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 PaperbackImprint University of Guam PressPublisher University of Guam Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885030061Author Nicky Sa-Eun SchildkrautFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Kaya PressPublisher Kaya Press

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...

Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Awards in Poetry and 2010 American Book Award The first team sport in human history was played with a ball made of stone, on courts that have been found from the Mayan ruins of Central America to Arizona. Thus,...

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 Press

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

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...

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...

Winner of the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. "Barot's mature linguistic skills really come down to a metaphorical and musical intelligence that refuses to value one element over another, that will not let the language or the longing take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639191Author Cheena Marie LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune Editions

"Hoa Nguyen's poems probe dailiness to divorce us from our base assumptions about how language might present the world to us. Her poems comprise some of the most inviting lyrics I've found in a living poet."--Bookslut "Phrase by phrase Nguyen's work can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527482Author Jim Wong-ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945665189Author Kimi SugiokaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Manic D PressPublisher Manic D PressWeight(grams) 159g

In Jeffrey Yang's vision for this brilliant new collection, the essence of poetry can be broken down into line and light. Dispersed across these poems are luminous centers, points of a constellation tracing lines of energy through art, myth, and history...

No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America's greatest living poets. That Was Now, This Is Then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584985Author Kenji C LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682011232Author Stanley KusunokiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint North Star Press of Saint Cloud IncPublisher North Star Press of Saint Cloud...

Controvertibles features more of the refined brilliance and delicate lyricism of this poet, cast in a more meditative mode. Throughout, she examines cultural objects by lifting them out of their usual settings and repositioning them in front of new,...