Product Description: In a series of narative and lyric poems, Jean Lin tells the story of her marriage to a Chinese man. They met as students in the early 1970s, and married at a time when cross-cultural marriages were far less common than today. These poems deal with all the obvious differences, But the poems also show how similar families can be, on either continent...read more

A compilation of poetry addresses the complex history of the American South, offering a lyrical tribute to the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments in service during the Civil War and paying tribute to the author's mother and her illegal interracial marriage.

Product Description: In her first book-length collection of poetry, Crystal Williams utilizes memory and music as she lyrically weaves her way through American culture, pointing to the ways in which alienation, loss, and sensed "otherness" are corollaries of recent phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)