Asian American & Pacific Islander

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,...

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...

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, "a consistently inspiring and exciting voice" (Morgan Parker) In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history-especially the provenance of objects such as...

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 9780892555321Author Patrick RosalFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 452gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

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.

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2015 and Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781938912443Author Hieu Minh NguyenFormat PaperbackPage...

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...

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...

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...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816548354Author Brandy Nalani McDougallFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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 9781556596148Author Shangyang FangFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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 *...

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.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781556596568Author Paisley RekdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S...

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...

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 *...

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