Product Description: How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma--the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that no one could love her...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.

The evocative family portraits and sensuous nature poetry capture the author's experiences as a mixed-raced person, in a debut anthology of poetry by the winner of the Native Writers First Book Award. Original.

Product Description: This remarkable collection of poems explores the conjoined cultures of Indian and European, the revisions the conquered race must face, and the disruption that results from the attempt to combine divergent cultures in a single being...read more

Product Description: Winner of the 2002 New York / New England Award Selected as one of the "Five Best Books of Poetry in 2003" by Black Issues Book ReviewUsing musical allusion and metaphor, juxtaposing history and autobiography, Matejka navigates a triracial identity...read more

A collection of poems seeks to confront questions of personal identity and buried family secrets.

Ranging from the Civil War to the present, this poetic historical novel in verse form chronicles the lives and fortunes of five characters--Tom and Stella, runaway slaves turned operatives for the Underground Railroad; Faith, a black slave; Christy, her white lover; and their son (the narrator). By the award-winning author of The Longest Memory. Reprint.