These poems look at the social fabric of protest and dissent from an insider's point of view. They bear the stamp of societies going through upheavals with a fo

A poetry sequel to Sunbathing in the Rain, this book is about depression. It is partly set in a mental hospital, but the treatment here, is playful and upliftin

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Appealing to the Good is Us, Chad Norman writes poignantly and lyrically about the human journey, punctuated by border crossings, walls and barb-wire fences, ra

"There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of all