{"id":9092,"date":"2022-11-10T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2022-11-08T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:17:06","slug":"an-asian-american-poetry-companion-books-to-spice-up-your-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/an-asian-american-poetry-companion-books-to-spice-up-your-november\/","title":{"rendered":"An Asian American Poetry Companion: Books to Spice Up Your November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New and Notable Books by Asian American Poets (November 2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this year, we\u2019re thankful for the wealth of new and forthcoming books coming from the Asian American poetry community. From cage fighting to contemporary dystopia, there\u2019s a book for everyone this Thanksgiving season.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FROM THE LR COMMUNITY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On <\/em>(Ecco Books, November 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On <\/em>is the much-anticipated third book from Franny Choi, following the publication of their acclaimed collection Soft Science. LR <\/em>readers may also remember Choi\u2019s work from her two poems<\/a> published in Issue 9.1. The World Keeps Ending <\/em>brings the apocalypse to us\u2014Choi depicts historical and contemporary war, violence, and loss as the dystopia marginalized communities experience, and have experienced, daily. Yet, in the midst of all this brokenness, the publisher remarks that Choi \u201calso imagines what togetherness\u2014between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest\u2014could look like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen Hellen, Meet Me at the Bottom <\/em>(Main Street Rag, November 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re excited for Kathleen Hellen\u2019s fourth book, Meet Me at the Bottom, <\/em>which Jim Daniels describes as \u201cteem[ing] with rich, layered descriptions that dig down to the heart of injustice.\u201d LR <\/em>readers have been enjoying Kathleen Hellen\u2019s work since Issue 2<\/a>, and we look forward to reading her new poetry collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny Liou, Muscle Memory <\/em>(Kaya Press, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eloquent yet striking, Jenny Liou\u2019s Muscle Memory <\/em>starts with cage fighting and expands into Chinese American history. Examining intergenerational trauma and violence and interrogating the process of healing, Liou\u2019s debut collection expands upon and includes her poem<\/a> from Lantern Review<\/em>\u2019s latest issue. Liou\u2019s book, which weaves together the personal and the political, sure succeeds in landing a punch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE NEW & NOTEWORTHY PICKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jee Leong Koh, Inspector Inspector <\/em>(Carcanet, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kien Lam, Extinction Theory <\/em>(UGA Press, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dipika Mukherjee, Dialect of Distant Harbors <\/em>(CavanKerry, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawako Nakayasu, Pink Waves <\/em>(Omnidawn, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raena Shirali, summonings <\/em>(Black Lawrence, October 2022)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What books will you be looking forward to reading this November? Share your recommendations with us in the comments or on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, or\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(@lanternreview).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ALSO RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Guillotine <\/em>by Eduardo C. Corral (Graywolf, 2020)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please consider supporting a small press or independent bookstore with your purchase.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an Asian American\u2013focused publication, Lantern Review<\/em> stands for diversity within the literary world. In solidarity with other communities of color and in an effort to connect our readers with a wider range of voices, we recommend a different collection by a non-Asian-American-identified BIPOC poet in each blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this year, we\u2019re thankful for the wealth of new and forthcoming books coming from the Asian American poetry community. From cage fighting to contemporary dystopia, there\u2019s a book for everyone this Thanksgiving season.\u00a0 FROM THE LR COMMUNITY  Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1313],"tags":[1522,1518,1212,1511,559,1517,1513,1512,1519,1515,1516,1514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}