The strength of this book is in the leaps it takes to analogize and approximate the political and poetic endeavors of poets generally not studied together. In that, it breaks new ground.
Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and Professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 and 100 Chinese Silences, and he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women
Poets.