Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Poets
Here are some suggestions for the category: Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Poets. Annotations adapted from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, World Literature Today, or the publisher's copy.
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If They Come for Us
In this awe-inspiring debut, Asghar explores the painful, sometimes psychologically debilitating journey of establishing her identity as a queer brown woman within the confines of white America.
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Obit
In her fifth collection, Guggenheim Fellowship winner Chang uses an unusual subject--obituaries--to shed light on what qualities make for a good life as well as a passable death.
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Soft Science
In her second collection, Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology. Porn sites, tweets, chat rooms, and machine translations abound as Choi questions identity and consciousness in a world full of artificial intelligence.
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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.
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The Curious Thing
The introspective third collection from Lim sees the poet train her eye on the retreating shoreline of a life, a "thousand mile scent// Going all through the body."
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Living Nations, Living Words
This recent collection of Indigenous poetry, edited by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) includes poems from several Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander poets, including Imaikalani Kalahele (Kānaka Maoli), Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), Lehua Taitano (Chamoru), Brandy Nālani McDougall (Kānaka Maoli), and Mahealani Perez-Wendt (Kānaka Maoli).
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What He Did in Solitary
Accomplished poet/novelist Majmudar writes with the observational precision one would expect of the diagnostic nuclear radiologist he is.
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Oculus
After debuting with the smart, blistering Mad Honey Symposium, Mao returns to investigate a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language.
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Oceanic
Award-winning poet Nezhukumatathil writes sharp poems that internalize nature and make its voice palpable, using lyrical language to reconnect us with nature's inhabitants and investigate their relationship with humans, personally and culturally.
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Not Here
In his second collection, Lambda finalist Nguyen, the son of Vietnamese immigrants, explores the horrors of the war that reshaped his family while limning his struggles with being gay in an unaccepting community.
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