Where the Torches Are Burning is a first collection of poems and prose by a Hmong poet living in California's Central Valley. It movingly chronicles his dangerous travel with his people from Laos to the United States. It continues as an account of love and family and identity in the poet's new land. A prose account of how Moua composes and relates to his places-on-earth makes a valuable closing to the book. Foreword by Gary Snyder.

Where the Torches Are Burning

Literature & Fiction

Moua, Pos

Poetry

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God's One Hundred Promises

Lee, Karen An-Hwei

Religion & Spirituality

Poetry. HOW TO BE THIS MAN collects men's evocations and invocations of maleness and boyhood. While each man sounds like himself, the poets also speak with one voice, affirming the self-portraits we leave of ourselves and the community we join in. Poets include Clarence Major, Marvin Bell, Jack Marshall, Walter Pavlich, John Olivares Espinoza, Alejandro Escude, Francisco Aragon, and Eric Gudas.

How To Be This Man

History & Criticism

<p>Nhan Trinh's PURSUE is a book of necessary meditations, a Viet Kieu's reconciliation to truths born within the rage of wars-personal and political. His poetry speaks from the quieter moments when the witness gathers the sacred ghosts of both afterthought and afterimage to find meaning in present uncertainties. Yet his timbre scatters complacencies, resonating with all the fury of the prodigal son come back to reclaim his beloved and plundered ancestral home--Rigoberto Gonzalez. Nhan Trinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He received his MFA from Cornell University.</p>

Pursue

Trinh, Nhan

Poetry. "For Raz poetic mind and language take precedence, and the unpredicatble, tragi-comic, contradictory and unsettling personal truths that lie behind any world-scale socio-political conflict are the actual reach of her penetrating poems. This is courageous, vulnerable work, hard won, and illuminating" - Gary Snyder. Yosefa Raz grew up in Jerusalem, served in the Israel Defense Force as a border guard and Hebrew teacher before receiving the Celest Turner Wright Poetry Prize.

In Exchange for a Homeland

Raz, Yosefa

<p>The poetry of Emmy Perez celebrates and grieves borders, the division between poverty and sustenance. Perez's precise and soulful language erases boundaries...Two languages are barely enough to name her world--Mary Jane Nealon. "In SOLSTICE Emmy Perez looks deeply at shards of the physical world, its sensual body, its cycles...Perez follows the personal and cultural connections and beckons us to take part in her discoveries"--Molly Bendall. Emmy Perez received an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review.</p>

Solstice

Pérez, Emmy

Robinson, VirginiaCarrierPoetry. In this, her first collection of poetry, "Virginia Robinson is a carrier herself, a woman left behind in wartime to bear the burden of fearing for those she loves, of remembering the lost days of peace before her friends were deployed on those other carriers, Navy ships"-Joan Swift. "This book tells a story that rarely shows up in American poetry. It does so with perfect dramatic pacing, just the right mix of tenderness and detachment, and inventive language"-Alan Williamson.

Carrier

Robinson, Virginia

Poetry. James DenBoer has selected 35 poems to include in his collection entitled STONEWORK. "James DenBoer is the awake one, and vulnerable to his awakeness. In this physical world he has ties to the comic and to the suffering. He pays tribute, he asks for counsel, and a great spirit is born and sustained. STONEWORK exhibits the bonding of difficult material to lucid expression. What an artistic fulfillment!" -Sandra McPherson.

Stonework: Selected Poems

Denboer, James

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun--which the Maya believe arrives in 2012--and Alarcon identifies as the era of the "Flower Sun" when the World's biggest concerns would be "the colors / and the scents / of flowers // sprouting / from nowhere / everywhere...."

Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun

Alarcón, Francisco X.

Poetry. In poetry that is formal in traditional and contemporary ways, Swift closely examines a case of neonaticide--the killing of an infant, usually by its mother, soon after birth. This social problem, though not common, may be on the rise in the U.S., according to medical and crime reports. Swift's poetry approaches her subject with deep sympathy and empathy, but does not gloss over chilling details, forging a tension between the "real" event and her highly-crafted poetic imaging.

Snow on a Crocus: Formalities of a Neonaticide

Swift, Joan

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