This collection is loosely structured around the Chinese and Asian immigrant experience. Russell Leong’s poems begin and end with water, from the Canton Delta to the drained pool of a Los Angeles tract house in Little Saigon.
5½ x 8½ inches • 80 pages • ISBN 0-931122-76-7
A breakthrough for the poetry of Diaspora.”
Ishmael Reed
Sweats with sensuality.”
Janice Mirikitani
For many years, Russell Leong has been the editor of Amerasia Journal at UCLA. In the early 1990s Leong emerged as an important Chinese American poet in his own right. His work reflects deep moral and ethical concerns for social justice and abiding interest in Buddhism as well as the gay dimension of Asian American experience.
