Welcome to our Summer Reads 2011 blog series! Throughout the months of July and August, we will be featuring recommended reading lists submitted by Lantern Review contributors who want to share either books they plan to read themselves this summer, or titles they want to suggest to the wider LR community. This week features a set of reads from Issue 1 contributor and 2010-2011 staff writer Henry W. Leung.
He writes:
Criticism:
Foreign Accents by Steven G. Yao. This just came out and was a helpful if limited summation of the three broad phases of Chinese American verse (racial protest, lyric testimony, & ethnic abstraction).Chinese Writers on Writing edited by Arthur Sze. Also just came out. All translated from Chinese, some for the first time. I recommend the whole series: it’s a hugely important intro to current international writers–on their own terms.
After Confession edited by Kate Sontag & David Graham. Ten years old but a grand discovery for me. American poets on where the “I” belongs in poems today.Poetry:
The History of Anonymity by Jennifer Chang, my patron poet from Kundiman!Graphic:
Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines. I’ve just started this and it’s gorgeous, multitextual, and resonates with some of what DeLillo did in White Noise.
Thanks for this reading list, Henry, and happy summer!
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Henry’s poem “Question for a Painter” can be found in Lantern Review, Issue 1. His many editorials, interviews, and book reviews can also be found on the LR blog – just search for his name on the blog’s homepage.