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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The Octopus Museum
In her fifth collection, Shaughnessy imagines a dystopian future in which octopuses reign, while humans receive their just deserts for centuries of environmental devastation.
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A Nail the Evening Hangs on
Sok's reflective debut teases out how the trauma of the Khmer Rouge is remembered and retained in the fabric of the country and within her own family.
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The Glass Constellation
National Book Award winner Arthur Sze is a master poet, and The Glass Constellation is a triumph spanning five decades, including ten poetry collections and twenty-six new poems.
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All the Flowers Kneeling
This much-anticipated debut from Tran (the first Asian American since 1993 and the first transgender poet ever to win the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam) investigates American imperialism, sexual assault, intergenerational trauma, and the complexities of trauma recovery.
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Stepwell
Azura Mizan Tyabji serves as the 2018/19 Youth Poet Laureate of Seattle. As a writer, spoken word performer, facilitator, and educator, her poetry is motivated by a love for community, justice, and healing.
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Time Is A Mother
Vuong's powerful follow-up to Night Sky with Exit Wounds does more than demonstrate poetic growth: it deepens and extends an overarching project with 27 new poems that reckon with loss and impermanence
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The Sunflower Cast A Spell to Save Us From the Void
In this extraordinary debut, Wang creates a symbolist dream diary for catastrophic times. A cross between Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's elliptical poetic treatises and Marosa di Giorgio's fevered fables, Wang tells stories that begin in clarity but unfurl into complex landscapes.
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How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
Wong explores loss, grief, migration, colonization, and alienation in her searching and resilient second collection.
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Dream of the Divided Field
In his latest book, Yanyi conjures the beloved whom we believe we know, yet who is never who we imagine, and who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. We exit our old selves like homes, these poems suggest.
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A Cruelty Special to Our Species : Poems
Yoon recasts narratives of the Korean "comfort women" held captive under Japanese occupation during WWII in this devastating debut comprising persona poems.
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