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Asian American Poetry
Edited by Victoria Chang |
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Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation gathers for the first time a broad cross section of the very best work of these young poets, all under the age of forty, include Timothy Liu, Adrienne Su, Sue Kwock Kim, Rick Barot, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mong-Lan, as well as less familiar names.
A foreword by Marilyn Chin puts the book in context of both Asian American national identity and history, and makes the important distinctions between generations clear. Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation opens the door on a dynamic, developing part of the poetic world, making it finally accessible to students, scholars, and poetry fans alike.
"This lively and diverse anthology gives me great hope for the future of American poetry as something rich, innovative, and historically conscious, something marvelous and unexpected, perpetually new."
"The poems in this vibrant, varied collection address so many subjects in such a range of voices that it all but destroys monolithic notions of Asian American identity, culture, and issues."
Book Description from Back Cover
This exciting anthology of work by up-and-coming writers is the first to profile a new generation of Asian American poets. Building on the legacy of now-canonized poets, such as Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Garrett Hongo, who were the first to achieve widespread recognition in the American literary community, this new generation also strikes off in bold new directions.
Comments from Back Cover
"A new generation of Asian American poets has indeed risen and needs to be acknowledged and celebrated--something this book does brilliantly."
-- Jim Daniels, author of City Pool and coeditor of American Poetry: The Next Generation.
-- Edward Hirsch, author of Wild Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
-- Guiyou Huang, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature
Background on Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Threepenny Review, Best American Poetry, and she is the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. She has earned degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Stanford University, and is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Scholarship, a Kenyon Writer's Workshop Taylor Fellowship, the Hopwood Award, and the Holden Minority Fellowship from the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.
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