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PEARS, LAKE, SUN is Sandy Solomon's poetic rendition and portrayal of the beautiful and the ugly of both the physical and social environment of the twentieth century.

Reginald Shepherd's collection of poems straddles two worlds: the past and the present, Greek mythology and contemporary life, American mainstream culture and African American culture.

Gus Lee's TIGER'S TAIL describes a Chinese American Army investigator's two trips to Asia, the first one to fight in Vietnam and the second one to preserve peace in Korea.

THE HOUSE ON MULBERRY STREET is a historical novel which juxtaposes a murder mystery and the characters' search for identity.

THE MIDDLE HEART is Chinese American author Bette Bao Lord's third novel; it describes three friends' loyalty to their families, to their country, and to each other.

This collection of poems juxtaposes observation and vision, memory, and reality, and history and society; it celebrates a connectedness which is fundamental to all those who believe in the commonality in human experience.

A collection of poems revealing the author's emotional and ontological attachment to history.

Expertly compiled and edited by one of the leading Western scholars of Japanese literature and culture, MODERN JAPANESE DIARIES is a collection of journals describing Japanese's contact with the outside world between 1860 and 1920.

The narrator traces his footsteps back and forth between his hometown Volcano, Hawai'i, and Gardena, California, interweaving descriptions of trips to his birth place, studies of family history, and recollections of places which have helped him reclaim his sense of ontological and cultural identity.

OLD MEN AND COMETS is a collection of poems which takes a paradoxical look at the cacophonous, albeit dialectical, relationship between youth and age, between memory and reality, and between the meaning of life and the inevitability of death; the poems include the poet's remembrance of things and people past and his observations and reflections of the present.

ARABIAN JAZZ traces an Arab American family's struggle to balance and reconcile two cultures in a small poor-white community in upstate New York.

In this collection of seventeen short stories, the celebrated Japanese writer Haruki Murakami presents comic, witty, and surrealistic portrayals of lives of Japanese urbanites who are in their twenties and thirties.