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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A Thousand Times You Lose your Treasure
Nguyen's newest collection is primarily a verse biography of her mother, Diêp Anh Nguyên, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troop in the 1950s and '60s.
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Constellation Route
Conceived as the assembled contents of a mail carrier's pouch, the intimate and affecting third book by Olzmann presents the poet as sender, receiver, and courier.
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Pacific Islander Climate Change Poetry | The Missing Slate
This special issue of “The Missing Slate” magazine features work of eight Pacific Islander poets. From the guest editorial: “The vibrant selection includes poets from across the Pacific and our diaspora. The poems are written in various forms and styles, showcasing the diverse range of voices in Pacific literature. Another exciting aspect of this feature is the inclusion of several video-eco-poems.”
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Pacific Islander Poetry | YouTube
Craig Santos Perez's YouTube channel offers over 250 video performances by Pacific Islander poets.
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Pacific Islander Poetry and Culture | Poetry Foundation
Contemporary poets, poems, and articles exploring the history and aesthetics of the Pacific.
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Tonguebreaker
In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire.
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Nightingale
In her fifth book, Rekdal reenvisions Ovid's Metamorphoses to offer a haunting meditation on the vulnerability of the body and an exploration of how one goes on living after literal or metaphorical loss.
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Letters to A Young Brown Girl
Reyes's unapologetic, intersectional feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
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Habitat Threshold
With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future.
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That Was Now, This Is Then
In an engaging, confiding tone that embraces both wit and compassion, Seshadri enlists poetry to assure us that despite the historical moment's forced isolation and heightened sociopolitical stress, we need not feel we're alone.
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