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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 Auction, her first poetry collection in eight years, the poet, novelist, and playwright Quan Barry travels the globe in her signature quest into the existential nature of experience. These poems explore the inner landscapes of both the human and...

"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...

Spanning thirty years of dazzling work-from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos-A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one 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...

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...

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...

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 9781646626359Author Megha SoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Finishing Line PressPublisher Finishing Line PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627290159Author Kay Ulanday BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Topside HeliotropePublisher Topside HeliotropeWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913268305Author Shareen K MurayamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bad Betty PressPublisher Bad Betty PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625578716Author Kristin ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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 *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989496367Author Adrian De LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Buckrider BooksPublisher Wolsak & Wynn PublishersWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

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 9781938584060Author Sally Wen MaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Bao Phi brings people to poetry who might not be interested or otherwise find it accessible. Though Phi?s poems are incredibly tender; they are colored with first-hand accounts of oppression, discrimination, and blatant, even violent, racism. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536862Author Eleanor ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

What does it mean to be a Global Citizen in an era of constant war, rampant industrialization, and ever-advancing technology? Lee's ever-wandering cultural and spiritual nomads struggle to make sense of what it means to be a citizen of an increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015889Author Aaron Caycedo-KimuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954245440Author Eugenia LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Four Way BooksPublisher Four Way BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 152mm *...

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 *...

Named a "Best Book of 2019" by the New York Public Library In March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. Those...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982814253Author Lawrence Lacambra YpilFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Gaudy Boy, LLCPublisher Gaudy Boy, LLCWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938584053Author Cathy Linh CheFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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 9780999167878Author Shirley Geok-Lin LimFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Sungold EditionsPublisher Sungold EditionsWeight(grams) 168g

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 9781999227227Author Hinnah MianFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Riza PressPublisher Riza PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

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