AANHPI 2022: PoetryLike this list

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• Time Is a Mother

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  A deeply intimate second poetry collection, Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.

• Imagine Us, the Swarm

  Leung, Muriel,

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  Contemplates vengeance, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. In this collection of essays in verse, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Habitat Threshold

  Santos Perez, Craig,

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  As the book progresses, however, Perez confronts the impacts of environmental injustice, global capitalism, toxic waste, animal extinctions, water struggles, human violence, mass migration and climate change.

• Bamboophobia

  Ko Ko Thett, 1972-

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  Readers will find oddball lists, linguistic inventiveness, and sardonic humor applied at times to the quotidian (chairs, metaphors, potatoes), but also to a strangulating bureaucracy and the horrific treatment of prisoners.

• The Essential W.S. Merwin

  Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019

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  A deeply considered selection from W.S. Merwin’s vast oeuvre that represents the poems—and a few select pieces of prose—that readers will cherish today, tomorrow, and into the next century.

• Letters to a Young Brown Girl

  Poems

  Reyes, Barbara Jane,

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  Centers the Pinay voice as resolute, as within a place of its belonging, and it is a voice that refuses to let go.

• If They Come for Us

  Poems

  Asghar, Fatimah,

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  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.

• Obit

  Poems

  Chang, Victoria, 1970-

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  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.

• Soft Science

  Poems

  Choi, Franny,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foreign Bodies

  Poems

  Hahn, Kimiko, 1955-

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  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.

• Remembering Our Intimacies

  Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻāina, and Ea

  Osorio, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani,

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  Remembering Our Intimacies argues for the methodology of (re)membering Indigenous forms of intimacies. It does so through the metaphor of a ‘upena—a net of intimacies that incorporates the variety of relationships that exist for Kānaka…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curious Thing

  Poems

  Lim, Sandra,

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  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."

• Living Nations, Living Words

  An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tonguebreaker

  Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-

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  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.

• That Was Now, This Is Then

  Poems

  Seshadri, Vijay,

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  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.

• A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

  Nguyen, Hoa, 1967-

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  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.

• The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void

  Wang, Jackie,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Cruelty Special to Our Species

  Poems

  Yoon, Emily Jungmin,

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  Yoon recasts narratives of the Korean "comfort women" held captive under Japanese occupation during WWII in this devastating debut comprising persona poems.