Lion: Poems

An urgent exploration of Asian American identity from a poet with a “fearless imagination” (Tracy K. Smith, winner of the Pulitzer Prize).

In Lion, Tina Chang mines personal and collective memory to explore safety and danger, visibility and invisibility as an Asian American woman. Throughout the collection, Chang responds to multi-hyphenate women artists, including Haena Yoo, H?ng-Ân Truong, Astria Suparak, and a collective whose work paid tribute to the life of Christina Yuna Lee, a young w...