Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

A collection of poems evokes the author's youth and the immigrant experience in America.

Humorous poems celebrate every kind of family member, including aunts and uncles, step-brothers and sisters, cousins, and even cats!

Al seguir a un c�irculo de familia y amigos durante todo un d�ia, desde la ma�nana hasta la noche, este libro reafirma la importancia de todas las cosas grandes y peque�nas en nuestro mundo, desde el caracol m�as peque�nito en la playa hasta la calidez de las conexiones familiares o el m�as amplio atardecer a cielo abierto. Celebrates a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant, and spending...

"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities....

A collection of poems that describe the experiences and relationships in a close-knit family.

The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines...

"In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism"-- "In her third collection, Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the savage reign of global capitalism and resurgent nativism....