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"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...

No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical awareness, and intricate humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. His fourth collection takes on the paradoxes of time and space, destabilizing highly tuned lyrics and elegies with sharp and...

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...

"The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It's gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity and transforming pain into language...

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...

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.The Mirror Diary tracks the...

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 9781938073021Author Zubair AhmedFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 256g

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...

Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. Itself a cabinet of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978198Author Jeffrey YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975944Author Jeffrey YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

In Sharon Wang's thrilling and corporeal geometry, touch dominates, if often in its 'aftermarks': singes, whiffs, folds of fabric, echoing gestures between bodies. With generous language and quicksilver intelligence, Wang expresses 'a hunger so large it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892555680Author Patrick RosalFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 325gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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 over...

Naoko Fujimoto translates her poems (that are written in English on flat paper) into words and images to create a contemporary picture scroll. The picture scroll in Japanese is Emaki (eh-MA-kee) and the style has been popular since the 7-16th centuries...

Find the beauty. In 2017, writer and educator Rahul Mehta began a writing practice to find solace and beauty-in the natural world, in their family and friends, and in everyday simplicities-during a time of political tensions, environmental disasters, a...

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...

"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...

"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 9780593300251Author Ocean VuongFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm *...

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) 363gDimensions(mm) 251mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBorn and raised in Chicago, Dwight Okita started his writing life as a poet with Tia Chucha Press publishing his book of poetry Crossing with the Light.Book...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592218Author Amy UyematsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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,...

Threshold enters a landscape of seemingly perpetual in-between, crossing from conventionality to queerness; exploring the fluidity of gender; and translating the hard hold of family. The collection meditates on passageways and what it means to arrive at,...

In her debut collection, Tiana Nobile grapples with the history of transnational adoption, both her own from South Korea and the broader, collective experience. In conversation with psychologist Harry Harlow's monkey experiments and utilizing fragments...

"Ching-In Chen's first book, The Heart's Traffic, constructs a re-naming, a caterwaul call to arms to attend to an archipelago of hybrid identity: political, sexual and always love-persuaded. Here the father is temporary, the mother is dead-alive and...

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation "Ok's metier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies."-David Woo, Literary Hub "There are places," Cindy Juyoung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793811Author Jenny ZhangFormat PaperbackImprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House Books

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...