Books
this is how the bone sings
This Is How the Bone Sings is a book about silence. These poems are about Minidoka, the concentration camp built in Idaho for Japanese Americans during World War II, drawing from myth and folk tale to talk about the legacy of trauma across multiple generations in America.
the dead wrestler elegies
This new edition of The Dead Wrestler Elegies, Championship Edition takes the now out of print original book and adds new poems and new illustrations that examine love, loss, regret, redemption, and remorse. This more complete book of poems mines the history of professional wrestling to examine the complex relationships between fathers and sons.
poetry: a writers' guide and anthology
Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing prompts. The book guides the reader through a range of poetic modes, including elegy, found poems, nocturne, ode, protest poems, ars poetica, lyric, narrative, and more.
slash / slash
by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko. The collaboratively written poems in this chapbook explore identity, masculinity, fame, and music. Partly a mythologized biography of heavy metal guitarist Slash, partly a fictionalized story of the complex relationship between Slash and his longtime bandmate Axl Rose, these poems dive into unanswerable questions. What does it mean to be larger than life? What matters more: the music you make or whether someone is listening? What is the difference between who you are and who you become?