Jennifer Wong's innovative new study of Anglophone Asian diasporic poetry explores how notions of home, race, identity, and belonging are imaginatively made and re-made in the work of poets whose lives and verse traverse oceans and languages. Fusing literary commentary with in-depth interviews with practicing poets, this lucid and elegant book straddles criticism and creativity in illuminating ways, showing how the voices of living poets rightly belong in scholarly treatments of their work. This book a must-read for any scholar or student keen to understand the relationship between poetic form and experiences of migration, exile, and multiculturalism.

Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, University of Oxford, UK

By juxtaposing critical discussions of a range of poets with a study of the concept of diaspora and an account of Chinese migrations, Jennifer Wong offers here a refreshingly original curation of materials that will be of interest to scholars and general readers alike. An impressive and commendable undertaking.

Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Duke University, USA

This is an important book about the contemporary moment in Chinese diasporic poetry. The focus on identity is especially timely in its engagement with the Chinese diasporic experience.

Eddie Tay, Associate Professor, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong