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pro vyhledávání: '"POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander"'
Autor:
Adrienne Su
Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on fo
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Caroline M. Mar
Special Education is a powerful collection of poems confronting American identity in the 21st century. In large part, it traces a new teacher's poetic journey to understanding her work and herself. Mar's poems, which move between free verse and recei
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Victoria Chang
The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020NPR's Best Books of 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistFrank Sanchez Book AwardAfter her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather
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Paisley Rekdal
Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid's epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal's characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human
Autor:
Arthur Sze
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award “The sight lines in Sze's 10th collection are just that―imagistic lines strung together by jump-cuts, creating a filmic collage that itself seems to be a portrait of simultaneity.” ―The New York Times Fr
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Jan-Henry Gray
Rooted in the experience of living in America as a queer undocumented Filipino, Documents maps the byzantine journey toward citizenship through legal records and fragmented recollections. In poems that repurpose the forms and procedures central to an
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Oliver de la Paz
In a long sequence of prose poems, questionnaires, and standardized tests, The Boy in the Labyrinth interrogates the language of autism and the language barriers between parents, their children, and the fractured medium of science and school. Structu
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Yanyi
Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self†‘knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental
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Thomas V. Nguyen
Permutations of a Self grapples with issues of belonging and connection, all from the perspective of someone who does a lot more observing and ruminating than living in the present. Most of the poems draw from Nguyen's imperfect memory of himself and
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Ed Bok Lee
Taking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn, and in her cry g