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The Temperature of This Water
Poetry by Ishle Yi Park, Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y."Ishle Yi Park writes with a passionate and distinctive voice and a keen understanding of the intersections between individual and community life. These are poems that needed to be written, and need to be widely read."
-- Kim Addonizio, Author of What Is This Thing Called LoveThe first collection from this vivid and streetwise young poet
Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara
Performance works and commentary by Denise Uyehara"Maps of City and Body is a gem: fierce, feminist, lyrical, witty. Uyehara's art represents a profound engagement with our contemporary world, tracing the impact of history, memory, and politics on individual lives."
- Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern CaliforniaThe first in a series of books on Asian diasporic performance artists, Maps of City and Body documents Uyehara's unflinching attention to the transformative details that give our lives shape.
they who do not grieve
A novel by Sia Figiel"Poetic, energetic, swirling with wild sweeps of feeling, this is powerful and uninhibited writing which unleashes a world dense with ghosts, taboos, deceptions and violence... Bracing and exhilarating."
- The Times, LondonSia Figiel's powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two families in Samoa and New Zealand.
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East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
a novel by Younghill Kang"Younghill Kang's classic novel is as vibrant and pointed in its vision today as it was 60 years ago, and may prove to be one of our most vital documents. East Goes West deserves rediscovery."
- Chang-rae Lee, author of Native SpeakerThe extraordinary account of immigrant life in the 1920s by the first Korean American novelist
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
a novel by Catherine Liu"I couldn't put Oriental Girls Desire Romance down.... I thank [Catherine Liu] for this book."
- Kathy Acker, author of Blood and Guts in High SchoolThe adventures of a young demimondaine in 1980's New York
Rolling the R's
a novel by R. Zamora Linmark"[A] style that combines the comic pitch of a drag queen with crazed, daredevil experimental techniques unseen since the sixties heyday of Terry Southern and Hunter Thompson.... Linmark nails the excitement and terror of being young with a rare and moving accuracy."
- Dennis Cooper for Spin MagazineA novel beyond coming of age and coming out
Roughhouse
a novel by Thaddeus RutkowskiA quirky, deadpan look at fetish, violence, and family.
they who do not grieve
A novel by Sia Figiel"Poetic, energetic, swirling with wild sweeps of feeling, this is powerful and uninhibited writing which unleashes a world dense with ghosts, taboos, deceptions and violence... Bracing and exhilarating."
- The Times, LondonSia Figielšs powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two families in Samoa and New Zealand.
Waylaid
a novel by Ed LinIn its blackly humorous exploration of immigrant dreams and working class realities, Waylaid is a switchblade in the gut to stories of over achievement and success in America that ignore the human cost.
where we once belonged
a novel by Sia Figiel"Sia Figiel is a major literary voice ushering the vastness of Pacific Rim
literatures into the millennium."
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Heads by HarryThe first work by a Samoan woman to be published in the United States. Figiel takes on Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman and tells us what it was really like to grow up in Samoa.
POETRY
The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by José Garcia Villa
edited by Eileen Tabios with a foreword by Jessica Hagedorn"The Anchored Angel is a marvelous reintroduction to the work of one of the greatest pioneers of Asian American literature."
- Garrett Hongo, Author, Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'iPoetry and prose by this long-neglected Filipino American writer. Including essays on Villa by contemporary writers such as Luis Francia, E. San Juan, and Nick Carbó.
Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems (1969-2001)
poetry by Luis Cabalquinto"Luis Cabalquinto suffers from a useful malady for poets: a passion for the turn and tuck of words. He serves them up on a strong bed of narrative, of story. These poems teach, tell us about the dilemmas of exile and immigration, what happens when we look back at the cities we have left and begin to sing before we turn to stone."
- Indran Amirthanayagam, author of El Infierno de los PajarosThis long overdue collection features the compassion, wisdom, and well-being gained from the multi-ethnic worlds the author inhabits.
City Terrace Field Manual
prose poetry by Sesshu Foster"I thank Sesshu Foster for detailing the poetic sountrack of a people and a place.... Sesshu Foster is dangerous, ese! The way a poet should be."
- Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.A tour through the physical and psychological terrain of a barrio in East Los Angeles
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry
edited by Walter Lew"An exquisite artifacts of activist experimentation"
- Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard PoetryThe most comprehensive anthology of Asian North American poetry to date.
Tomie's Chair
poetry by Josey FooInspired by the 1996 mixed-media installation "Arrival" by Tomie Arai, Tomie's Chair is "provocative and arresting," says Arthur Sze
Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano
nonfiction by Casio AbeThe first English-language book on Kitano examines both his films and his Beat Takeshi persona, and offers an incisive and revelatory critique of Japanese consumer culture.
Waylaid
a novel by Ed LinIn its blackly humorous exploration of immigrant dreams and working class realities, Waylaid is a switchblade in the gut to stories of over achievement and success in America that ignore the human cost.
The Truth in Rented Rooms
poetry by Koon Woon
Winner, Josephine Miles AwardLuckily, it's the world. Miraculously, Koon Woon has written THE TRUTH. You read it!"
- Bob Holman, Author, In With the Out Crowd (Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records)Dispatches from the lonely world of itinerants and the dispossessed in the shadows of immigrant life in Seattle's I-District.
The Unbearable Heart
poetry by Kimiko Hahn
Winner, American Book Award"The work is furious, flawed and absolutely necessary."
- Adrienne RichA passionate book of grief, mourning, and the overcoming of a mother's death
NONFICTION
Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago
nonfiction by Luis H. Francia"The perfect antidote to the 'parachute journalism' that's being written about the Philippines. A poet and journalist himself, Francia not only takes the reader through a panoramic journey of the archipelago...but also through dazzling layers of personal memory and history, revealing the beauty and violence of the country as only a native son can, with both compassion and a critical eye."
- Eric Gamalinda, Author, My Sad Republic, winner of the Philippine Centennial PrizeA deft, luminously intelligent examination of the Philippines through a glass darkly.
PERFORMANCE
Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara
Performance works and commentary by Denise Uyehara"Maps of City and Body is a gem: fierce, feminist, lyrical, witty. Uyehara's art represents a profound engagement with our contemporary world, tracing the impact of history, memory, and politics on individual lives."
- Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern CaliforniaThe first in a series of books on Asian diasporic performance artists, Maps of City and Body documents Uyehara's unflinching attention to the transformative details that give our lives shape.
MUAE
A startling remix of innovative creative writing, controversal dialogues, provocative artwork, and investigative journalism
Yi Sang, Nam June Paik, Miran Kim, Lotte World, Splendid China
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