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A major achievement by Monica Youn, "one of the most consistently innovative poets working today" (NPR)."Where are you from . . . ? No-where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat.Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracinatio...

A brilliant collection of essays on one of the most important contemporary constitutional issues: when can and should the government be able to regulate campaign spending? Each essay offers original insights, and together they are a superb examination of the intersection of politics and constitutional law.

*Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award**National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist**Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016**Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016** Longlisted for the National Book Award*"Blackacre" is a centuries-old legal fiction-a placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems reframe their subjects as landscape, as legacy-a bere...

Then one day she noticed the forest had begun to bleed into her waking life.

Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." --Claudia Rankine "Felix the Rat's hind feet" "could be Barbie hands--" "same pink, same " "injection-molded seaming." --from "Electronica" The poems in "Barter, " Monica Youn's exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazz...