A thousand times you lose your treasure

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa’s mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam’s diaspora.Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- an...

And those ashen heaps that cantilevered vase of moonlight

And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, Lynn Xu's book-length poem, is a brilliant embodiment of time's effect on languages and histories.

Bite hard

The first collection by award-winning poet Justin Chin. He explores his identity as Asian, gay, and a lover.

Bodega

This richly lyrical debut collection tells the coming-of-age story of a first-generation Korean American as she views the world from her parents’ bodega in Queensbridge, New York, looking at our nation of immigrants eye-to-eye with humanitarianism and heart.

Book of my nights

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems...

Danger and beauty

Drawn from the essence of Latin soul and free jazz, rich evocations of the author's ancestral roots.

Dēmos

“Unflinching, unrelenting, disarming, and brilliant . . . A powerhouse collection of poems by a powerhouse poet.” —VICTORIA CHANG

Dmz colony

A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.

Letters to a young brown girl

Reyes’s unapologetic intersectionally feminist “tough love” poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

O.b.b.

Crafted through years-long collaborations, OBB aka The Original Brown Boy  is a postcolonial techno dream-pop comics poem that records two decades of the author’s experiences as an immigrant and artist

Precipitates

Kang Dean's poems creatively explore the various noun and verb meanings of the word "precipitate."

Sky country

Hungry for home and belonging, these poems re-imagine real and ideal experiences of immigration and displacement through Asian American perspectives.

Some girls walk into the country they are from

Audacious and highly innovative collection that cunningly engages with the assumptions and boundaries around translation, identity, and gender.

Tethered to stars

From Fady Joudah, an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope.

The other side of the postcard

San Franciscans portray the unvarnished life of the city not seen in postcards and travelogues.

Tsunami vs. the fukushima 50

“One of our brightest talents.”—ISHMAEL REED

Tula

World ball notebook

A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.