Asian American Poets: Vince Gotera, Yone Noguchi, Bryan Thao Worra, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Li-Young Lee, Mitsuye Yamada, Nellie Wong

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vince Gotera, Yone Noguchi, Bryan Thao Worra, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Li-Young Lee, Mitsuye Yamada, Nellie Wong, Suji Kwock Kim, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Yellow Rage, Barbara Jane Reyes, Hae Jong Kim, Jessica Hagedorn, Garrett Hongo, Mong-Lan, Eileen Tabios, David Mura, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jack Marshall, Sadakichi Hartmann, Oliver de La Paz, Eugene Gloria, Alexander Chee, Al Robles, Sarah Gambito. Excerpt: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born Dec 23, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give a unique perspective on love and loss, and the land. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007), which won the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first collection, Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), was the winner of the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize, and was named the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry, won the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and the Glasgow Prize. She was awarded a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry, and her poem Love in the Orangery won a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, and Tin House. Nezhukumatathil received her M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York - Fredonia. She has also taught at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers. In 2009, she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in po...