In this intergenerational collection, contemporary poets of multiple languages and lands illuminate the meaning of the Asian American and Pacific Islander identity. Contributors to this anthology divided into five sections—“Talk Story,” “Mourn,” “Pronounce,” “Fight,” and “Love”—include Marilyn Chin, Sarah Gambito, Sarah Kay, Ed Bok Lee, David Mura, Joshua Nguyen, Patrick Rosal, Teresia Teaiwa, Haunani-Kay Trask, and Shelley Wong. “Gathered from a range of contemporary schools and movements, these poems move, push, pulse,” write the editors in the introduction. “They are alive: gathered heat, heat gathering, and gathered into a motely but—we must insist—beautiful We.”
