Experiment Unincorporated: Barbara Jane Reyes, Craig Santos Perez, and Sueyeun Juliette Lee November 15, 2010

Poets Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Craig Santos Perez probe the identities of the outcast, the displaced in poems that experiment with everything from internet news sources to the Book of Genesis and Tagalog tradition. In Diwata, Reyes inherits the responsibility of remembering from her grandfather, a survivor of World War II and the Bataan Death March, in a collection that, according to Nick Carbo, "would have raised the hairs on the nape of Emily Dickinson's head." Lee, whose words Brenda Iijima says "full of finesse, radiance and are unsettlingly real," reads from Underground National, an experiment across the DMZ. Perez's latest book, from unincorporated territory [saina], illuminates the history of the Chamorro, the native people of Guam, in lyrics of personal and political memory. The SF Examiner says "It is impossible to read [saina] and not feel moved by Perez's capacity to take pain and truths that should be embittering, even crippling, and fashion light out of them."