The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

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The first and best Asian American women's anthology, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Mayumi Tsutakawa.

Poetry. We are Americans now, we live in the tundra / Marilyn Chin --
Into such assembly ; A Rose of Sharon / Myung Mi Kim --
Excerpts from Proud upon an alien shore / Rose Furuya Hawkins --
Go to Ahmedabad ; Muliebrity / Sujata Bhatt --
At Muktinath / Chitra Divakaruni --
Family photos : black and white : 1960 / Virginia R. Cerenio --
The handbook of sex of the plain girl ; Wintermelons / Marian Yee --
Heat in October / Kyoko Mori --
The club / Mitsuye Yamada --
For an Asian woman who says my poetry gives her a stomachache / Nellie Wong --
Legacy / Stephanie Sugioka --
Father's belt / Shalin Hai-Jew --
After delivering your lunch ; Higashiyama crematorium, November 16, 1983 ; The way April leads to autumn / Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher --
On being in the Midwest ; On the fly / Diana Chang --
Zhoukoudian bride's harvest / Carolyn Lau --
Currents ; Downtown Seattle in the fog / Tina Koyama --
On such a day / Song-jook Park ; translated by Hyun-jae Yee Sallee --
untitled ; Whenever you're cornered, the only way out is to fight / Merle Woo --
San Juan ; Toads mate and father cleans the pool / Myrna Peña Reyes --
The song of bullets / Jessica Hagedorn --
Duration of water ; Chronicle / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge --
Children are color-blind / Genny Lim --
Standing in the doorway, I watch the young child sleep ; Eleven a.m. on my day off, my sister phones desperate for a babysitter / Sharon Hashimoto --
Learning to swim / Arlene Naganawa --
Red / Jean Yamasaki Toyama --
Letter from Turtle Beach / Susan K.C. Lee --
Sewing woman / Alison Kim --
Pantoun for Chinese women ; Visiting Malacca / Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Prose. Yellow mittens and early violets / Kyoko Mori --
Tears of autumn / Yoshiko Uchida --
Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto --
Autumn gardening / Siu Wai Anderson --
A letter for Dar / Susan K.C. Lee --
Siko / Marianne Villanueva --
Native daughter / Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
Gussuk / Mei Mei Evans --
Last night / Fae Myenne Ng --
The Oriental contingent / Diana Chang --
Miné Okubo : an American experience / Betty LaDuke --
Paths upon water / Tahira Naqvi --
Sari petticoats / Talat Abbasi --
To rise above ; My only gods / Anjana Appachana. Art. Obachan Hatta, Kailua-Kona fields ; Obachan Hatta, Kaimalino housing ; Obachan Matano, Honolulu / Lori Kayo Hatta --
Self portrait ; Portrait of a Japanese girl ; Rice eaters ; Garden ; Chinese family / Tomie Arai --
Back of the bus, 1953 ; American friend ; Echoes of Gold Mountain ; Whirl war / Yong Soon Min --
All Orientals look alike ; All Orientals look alike ; The last supper / Roberta May Wong --
Manning the shroud ; A procession / Patti Warashina --
Cactus heart ; Fool's play ; Desert ; Piano solo / Judy Hiramoto --
Fish jumping / Carol Matsuyoshi --
Ring of forgotten knowledge / Elaine S. Yoneoka --
Mamala the surf rider ; Samansabadra / Mayumi Oda --
Kite ; Baek-do / Myung Kim Oh --
untitled / Alison Kim --
To Winnie Mandela / Betty Nobue Kano --
Carry me back to Old Virginny ; Tatooed geta with two states / Masako Miyata --
Girl with vase of flowers ; Cat with flags ; Drawings from Citizen 13660 / Miné Okubo. Reviews. Picture bride / Cathy Song, [reviewed by] Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
Asian-American literature : an introduction to the writings & their social context / Elaine H. Kim, [reviewed by] Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
Obasan / Joy Kogawa, [reviewed by] Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
Dangerous music / Jessica Hagedorn, [reviewed by] Jessica Saiki --
What Matisse is after / Diana Chang, [reviewed by] Janice Bishop --
In the city of contradictions / Fay Chiang, [reviewed by] Marian Yee --
Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park / Nellie Wong, [reviewed by] Marian Yee --
Camp notes and other poems / Mitsuye Yamada, [reviewed by] Marian Yee --
Thousand pieces of gold / Ruthanne Lum McCunn, [reviewed by] Margo P. Harder --
Wings of stone / Linda Ty-Casper, [reviewed by] Marianne Villanueva --
Beyond Manzanar : views of Asian American womanhood / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, [reviewed by] Amy Ling --
With silk wings : Asian American women at work / Elaine H. Kim, Janice Otani, [reviewed by] Kit Quan --
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color / edited by Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, [reviewed by] Julia Watson --
Crossing the peninsula and other poems ; No man's grove; Another country and other stories / Shirley Lim, [reviewed by] Phyllis Edelson --
Summits move with the tide ; The heat bird / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, [reviewed by] Shalin Hai-Jew --
Cruelty ; Killing floor ; Sin / t Ai, [reviewed by] Shalin Hai-Jew --
Dwarf bamboo / Marilyn Chin, [reviewed by] Shalin Hai-Jew --
Angel Island prisoner 1922 / Helen Chetin, [reviewed by] Michelle Yokoyama