Topography of War: Asian American Essays
Edited by Andrea Louie and Johnny Lew
ISBN 1-889876-15-1
Paperback, $21.95

Featuring essays by Elsa Arnett, Shymala Dason, Xujun Eberlein, Jennifer F. Estaris, Luis Francia, Andrew Lam, Christopher Lee, Maya Lin, Dang Ngo, Gary Reyes, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Michael Sandoval, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, John Vu and Dora Wang.

"This is how we are told wars end: either in victory or defeat, with honor or in shame, but as Topography of War shows us, nothing could be more false. Wars live on in intimate, complex, and painful ways, down through the generations and often in geographies far beyond their battlefields. [Topography of War] replaces the comfortable American narrative of immigrant arrival with the very human struggle between memory and forgetting." -Moustafa Bayoumi

"The Topography of War is an exploration not only of the effects of war on memory, but also on the way that we construct our fractured selves - part expression of history, part new America identity. -Sabina Murray

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Voices Wandered: An Anthology of Poetry and Art by Asian American Youth
Edited by Dianna Ng, Nisha Mirani, Karina Liu and Helen Lee

The first of its kind, Voices Wandered is a collection of poetry and artwork written, compiled and edited entirely by Asian American youth. This anthology showcases the fresh, emerging voices of Asian American youth of all backgrounds and interests from across the country, and captures an array of experiences of adolescence, from family relationships to first loves to the communities in which they live. The work in this anthology chronicles the exploration of identity and political beliefs, childhood memories, the examination of communication, whimsical musings, and many other enduring qualities of adolescence.

Featuring poetry by: Yao Bian, Wendy Cheung, Marika Hashimoto, Iimay Ho, Alexandra Kleeman, Lianna Sachiyo Kushi, Daniel Lau, Aislinn Luk, Angela Makabali, Suneela Mubayi, PakSoo Na/Sydney Hoover, Deborah Oh, Suriya Schmidt, Lindsay Taylor, Namita Thakker, Yun Wei and Jennifer Yoo.

Featuring artwork by: Binh Dao, Renee Delosh, Jimmy Dinh, Loan Ho, Claire Min, Imran Shafi, Georgianna Joy Spilman, Steve Teng, Zarah Dien Trinh, Sophia Woo and Kevin Yuih.

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The Man With My Face
Poems by Jennifer Tseng
ISBN 1-889876-17-8
Paperback, $12.95

"...Tseng both elucidates the ancient questions of language, immigration, foreignness, desire...and honors their irreducible mystery." ~ Suji Kwock Kim

"...[A] Striking and insightful debut" ~ Mark Doty

"This powerful collection investigates those other words of in between 'Quiet speech, nightly prayers, leaving & amnesia.'"~ Prageeta Sharma

"I want to be 'him' whoever he is or not---more impotantly I want to be many of the people and lives here---the lives in these poems make room for the lives around my life...Tseng writes a poetry that is constantly vibrant and penetrating" ~ Michael Burkard

"...Tseng transmutes the deep hunger of the (bi-racial) daughter into moving poems, letters of filial love, to the 'man with my face' An auspicious debut" ~ Dorothy Wang

Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings
Edited by Elaine H. Kim and Laura Hyun Yi Kang
ISBN 1-889876-13-5
Paperback, $19.95

A groundbreaking collection of new fiction and poetry from an array of emerging, innovative voices, Echoes Upon Echoes traverses bleak and eccentric landscapes and mindscapes of alienation, obsession, conflict and belonging. The multihued perspectives offered in this anthology attest to the tension between habitation within and movement across the varied terrains, communities and languages of the Korean American diaspora. While many of the pieces in Echoes explore familiar themes – coming-of-age, familial and generational conflict, adoptee identity – they also delineate a fiercely vibrant renewal of these forms. Woven together these poems and stories challenge and change the very definition of "American."

Finalist for The Lambda Literary Foundation Award, 2001.

Showcasing new work by established and emerging writers, Take Out captures the freshness of contemporary expressive culture in queer Asian Pacific America. It brings together artists from different backgrounds and interests to define their personal and collective vision as gays and lesbians. The visual art, literary and performance works in this anthology probe a variety of topics – intergenerational relationships, love, domesticity, pop culture, camp, Hollywood, fairy tales and Asia. Take Out resists summary just as its contributors refuse limits on their artistic expression and attempts to objectify them as people.

This dynamic collection of prose and poetry maps life in New York City as writers attempt to decipher its ever-elusive meanings. With work by Jose Garcia Villa, Maxine Hong Kingston, Vijay Seshadri, Wang Ping and many others.

A companion book to NuyorAsian, Tokens takes a look at the historical and contemporary New York stage world via a "verbal mural" of interviews with such luminaries as Frank Chin and Diana Son. Included are performance art works and full-length plays by David Henry Hwang, Aasif Mandvi, Chiori Miyagawa, Jessica Hagedorn, Ralph Pena, Han Ong, Ping Chong and Muna Tseng.

This landmark collection of poetry and prose heralds a new era for Vietnamese American literature. Here, for the first time, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally focused on the all-too-expected theme of war. With works by such writers as Linh Dinh, Andrew Lam and Christian Langworthy. Second printing.

This book explores the development of particular poems (featuring early drafts leading to the final draft of a poem) with some of the country's leading Asian American poets: Meena Alexander, Indran Amirthanayagam, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Luis Cabalquinto, Marilyn Chin, Sesshu Foster, Jessica Hagedorm, Kimiko Hahn, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, David Mura, Arthur Sze (who also provides an introductory essay) and John Yau.

Winner of the 1997 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. This anthology critically explores the family tension about and the concept of "home." With a foreward by noted physician and author Abraham Verghese, this anthology challenges images of South Asians in North America, portraying instead the subtleties of their varied, sometimes invisible, experiences. It includes fiction, poetry, essays and photography. Second printing.

Here for the first time are Filipino and Filipino American writers telling their lives in their own words. Here are stories of passion and betrayal, home and exile, the politics of the self and a nation in search of itself. Together, these works provide a deeper image of the Philippines and ultimately, a vivid perspective of America as well. Third printing.

This landmark anthology provides the first historical survey of Asian American poetry. Beginning with writings from the 1890s with such poets as Sadakichi Hartmann and Yone Noguchi, the book also includes the early work of such well-known writers as Joy Kogawa, Jessica Hagadorn and Lawson Fusao Inada. This is an important source book. Second printing.