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Asian Diasporic Poetry Public
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Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just …
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Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee (New poets of America series ; vol. 9)
5 stars
In this outstanding first book of poems, Lee is unafraid to show emotion, especially when writing about his father or …
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Tie Your Shoes Kid by Meta Sarmiento
Tie Your Shoes Kid is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that explore the journey from childhood to the …
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Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in …
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Thousand star hotel by Bao Phi
"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From …
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Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria …
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
4 stars
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother …
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Some say the lark by Jennifer Chang
"Chang's poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new …
