We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word Folklore & Mythology Inspired by Electric Literature's groundbreaking

Inspired by Electric Literature's groundbreaking series and edited by the first Black

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We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word Folklore & Mythology Inspired by Electric Literature's groundbreakingA 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