Poetry Anthology. Asian American Studies. This anthology includes selected works of some of the most active and dynamic contemporary poets writing in North America. Reflecting to varying degrees sensibilities based on ancestral Asian homelands and on lives in Canada and the United States, the poetry reproduced here is of a wide-ranging appeal and refreshing modernity, depicting a shifting, kaleidoscopic landscape of cultural and spiritual heterogeneity and individual interpretations. Includes works by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Marilyn Chin, Chitra Banerjee, Garrett Hongo, Kimiko Hahn, Carolyn Lei-Lanilau, David Mura, Michael Ondaatje, Sasenarine Persaud, and Arthur Sze.

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Cyril Dabydeen is the editor of BEYOND SANGRE GRANDE: CARIBBEAN WRITING TODAY (TSAR Publications), A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (Mosaic Press), and ANOTHER WAY TO DANCE: CONTEMPORARY ASIAN POETRY FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (TSAR Publications). His work has appeared in the Oxford, Penguin and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse, and in over 60 literary magazines worldwide. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, his last novel DRUMS OF MY FLESH (TSAR Publications) won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize. He is the recipient of the 2010 Guyana Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches at the University of Ottawa.