Asian American & Pacific Islander

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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595608Author Monica SokFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint 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 9781556596216Author Arthur SzeFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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...

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938912436Author Franny ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

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 9781556595677Author Paisley RekdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781556595165Author Victoria ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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...

from unincorporated territory [lukao] is the fourth book in native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez's ongoing series about his homeland, the Western Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), and his current home, Hawai i. He utilizes eco-poetic, decolonial,...

A furious, multiform examination of the devastation wrought by anti-Asian racism in America Truong Tran's provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595264Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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...

"if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body." Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from within. It is the act of...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in...

A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a...

Truthful, sensuous and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim's poetry displays stinging wit and a...

Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector. The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed,...

Separation Anxiety marks the first collection of poetry from acclaimed prose writer Janice Lee, and is a meditation on inhabitation and existence beyond the human. Weaving wisdom from her shamanic practice and the interstices of language, and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584275Author Matthew OlzmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

A Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos-intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and...

Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982814246Author Jenifer Sang Eun ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Gaudy Boy, LLCPublisher Gaudy Boy, LLCWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life. Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words...

The poems in Jee Leong Koh's Steep Tea are rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His language is colloquial, musical, aware of...

In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948579315Author Ina Cari oFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

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...

Poems deal with death, self-image, disasters, politics, children, evolution, history, the news, language, dreams, animals, and love.Book InformationISBN 9780395404225Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher...

"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...

A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482983Author Preeti RaipalFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584060Author Sally Wen MaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint 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 9781556594878Author Brenda ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 311g