second generation experiences

Yesterday while reading Talk Thai: the Adventures of a Buddhist Boy, I came across Gish Jen mentioned along with Amy Tan.

Animals and Orchards

This collection is a menagerie.

Strange wood poems by Kevin Prufer are evocative.
Tektite

Eric Pankey
Coracle

Memoir

so that one of them could climb up her backbone and escape the poverty... Rick Bragg, All over but the shoutin'

With raw sentences like this, I dont think I know what I signed up for by picking to read this book.

Bluetick hound

Southern link

In Hoi Polloi, Nin Andrews wotks in the myth of Goldilocks very well.

Her poems are puzzles, each peeling revealing her roots.

Journal in poetry

David Lehman, familiar as the editor has this concept of poems in journal in The Daily mirror and The Evening Sun


If so many people read their newspapers in the park, the paperboy should hit the park.

Who but the flying Dutchman

Fata Morgana

Birthing the Literary baby

Writing motherhood, a book by Lisa Garrigues can be used by not just mothers but anyone, who treats what they write as their babies.