We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word Binding:Paperback Competing food stall owners face

Competing food stall owners face no escape—from each other or their shared past

Von’s new hire is inexperienced and a fire hazard in the kitchen

They all stared at me

After unknowingly making a deal at the crossroads

this series delivers an unforgettable story--and a heroine unlike any other

We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word Binding:Paperback Competing food stall owners faceA beautiful anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary American poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" in today's world. In this thoughtfully curated, intergenerational collection, poets of multiple languages, lands, and waters write against and through the contested terrain of AAPI identity. Too often, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans are squeezed into the