Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Poets
Celebrate Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month with these poetry collections by Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander poets. Annotations adapted as noted. This list created by a librarian at The Seattle Public Library. (May 2024)
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Sightseer in This Killing City
The fourth collection from Gloria (My Favorite Warlord) explores disorientation and displacement in urban environments. (Publishers Weekly)
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Foreign Bodies
Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson's collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn's tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignificant objects exert on our lives. (Publisher description)
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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
These ruminative essays by acclaimed Japanese poet Ito explore assimilation, mortality, and identity through the lens of botany. (Publishers Weekly)
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OBB A.k.a The Original Brown Boy
OBB a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy has many identities: it is a comics poem and a manifesto on comics poetry; an experimental comic book sequel to a poem twenty years in the making; and an homage to the Mimeo Revolution, weird fiction, kamishibai, the political cartoon, Pilipinx komiks history, and the poet bp Nichol. (Publisher description)
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This Is How the Bone Sings
Kaneko explores the legacy of concentration camps in the United States and how memory is carried forward. This book knows how to sing -- to America, not its expected script, but the anthems of its history; and to a son, lessons on how to bring back the dead with stories, with a fading map, with birds. (Traci Brimhall, poet)
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The Kingdom of Surfaces
By turns "maker, muse and beholder," Mao explores in her ruminative third collection the politics of beauty and the ironies inherent in culture and civilization under the sign of empire. (Publishers Weekly)
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ʻĀina Hānau
Birth Lands is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet Brandy Nālani McDougall. These poems cycle through sacred and personal narratives while exposing and fighting ongoing American imperialism, settler colonialism, militarism, and social and environmental injustice to protect the ʻāina and its people. (Publisher description)
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The Diaspora Sonnets
The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts. (Publisher description)
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From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]
This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. (Publisher description)
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Ask the Brindled
In Ask the Brindled queer, Indigenous Hawaiian Revilla addresses self, family, community, and love in rich new ways. (Library Journal)
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