Asian Reads

Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East...

Lee Soho's debut collection of poems is an experimental lyric bildungsroman that confronts dynamics of abuse as it challenges poetic form. Catcalli...

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, w...

In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East Europe...

Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, fri...

A Library Journal Best Book of Poetry of 2021A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its...

A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of profound grief.Steeped in the bluest apocalypse li...

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic e...

Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called "the Koran in Persian." The thirteenth-century Mu...

In Reenactments, Hai-Dang Phan grapples with the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as the son of Vietnamese r...

Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation—the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surr...

Finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner of the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry Against the backdrop of the war on drugs and t...

Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem."Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely com...

Named a "Best Book of 2019" by the New York Public LibraryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian PoetrySociety of Midland Authors H...

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth...