"Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution....

When the speaker arrives to the United States, she struggles to fit in due to her lack of knowledge of the American culture which leads her to feeling isolated from the rest of the world. As the story progress, she takes risks such as getting rid of her traditional values in order to overcome her difference by conforming to the American teenager ideal. Read to find out her compromise!

This collection of poems embodies the soul of Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr., a Navy veteran with ancestry from Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Within the lines of these verses, we witness the intricate tapestry of his life, shaped by the burdens of schizophrenia and PTSD. Each poem serves as a testament to his resilience, as he fearlessly channels his experiences, beliefs, and emotions onto the written page. Through his heartfelt words, Rodriguez bares...

Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to...

This collection of poems embodies the soul of Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr., a Navy veteran with ancestry from Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Within the lines of these verses, we witness the intricate tapestry of his life, shaped by the burdens of schizophrenia and PTSD. Each poem serves as a testament to his resilience, as he fearlessly channels his experiences, beliefs, and emotions onto the written page. Through his heartfelt words, Rodriguez bares...

How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and...

Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor. Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root, slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop...

How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma-the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could...

A collection of poems about faith and angels. T.S.Garp's spiritual beliefs is a blend of Western and Eastern philosophies, from studying Buddhism to Christianity with poems that express the universal belief of angels, divine beings, wintry fairies, and having faith, worshiping God, receiving blessings, embracing nature's beauty and keeping hope alive in our hearts and mind.Voices of Angels is about experiencing great expectations, understanding loneliness,...

Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the communist and American-backed government, the delta was an essential resource that fed both sides of the war in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta went through countless massacres on an immense scale. Yet, history wiped the injuries away as if the river forgot. In her...