Published in partnership with the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Includes bibliographical references (page 291).
Contents:
faintest echo of our language / Chang-Rae Lee. Things that remind me of home / Kimiko Hahn -- Mothers, lock up your daughters because they are terrifying / Alice Sola Kim -- Ramadan red white and blue / Mohja Kahf -- My grandmother washes her feet in the sink of the bathroom at Sears / Mohja Kahf -- The place where I live is different because I live there / Wendy Xu -- Sit bones / Sharlene Teo -- magritte / Wo Chan -- what do i make of my face / except / Wo Chan -- Aama, 1978 / Muna Gurung -- Delicately, I beg of you / Muhammad Amirul bin Muhamad -- The words home and moon / Jennifer Tseng -- Post trauma / Rajiv Mohabir -- Costero / Rajiv Mohabir -- Pygmy right whale / Rajiv Mohabir -- Kalapani / Rajiv Mohabir -- The unintended / Gina Apostol -- Meet a Muslim / Fariha Rósín -- Elegy / Esmé Weijun Wang -- Cul-de-sac / Chaya Babu -- Esmeralda / Mia Alvar -- Love poems for the Border Patrol / Amitava Kumar -- Blue tears / Karissa Chen -- Tigress / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan -- The stained veil / Gaiutra Bahadur -- I'm Charlie Tuna / Jason Koo -- Bon Chul Koo and the Hall of Fame / Jason Koo -- Chicken & stars / T Kira Madden -- For Mitsuye Yamada on her 90th birthday / Marilyn Chin -- The faintest echo of our language / Chang-Rae Lee.
Summary:
Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry.
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