A poetry collection that brings Black women's experience at the margins of the city into view through fragments of memory and bodily sensation. Everyday scenes and historical undertones overlap, sketching a community in dense, compressed language.

An early signature book in which the voices and memories of Chicago come vividly alive.

A photographic record of San Francisco's old Chinatown. It preserves the layered history of immigration and urban culture in a book of clear documentary value.

A quiet photographic archive of a neighborhood that no longer exists in the same form.

A photo-historical study that rereads photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown as historical evidence. Through notes and images, it excavates urban memory and immigrant history.

Photographs bring a half-lost city memory back into view.

A linked novel set on an imaginary reservation, where the memories of several families and generations intersect. It layers love and loss, oral tradition and modern conflict.

Family voices overlap until the memory of the land comes into focus.

An experimental poetry collection that explores loss and movement through the figure of Amelia Earhart and the symbols attached to her. Its fragmentary structure sharpens the imagery of flight and disappearance.

The poems move back and forth between flight and disappearance.

A journal in which the author, at age seventy, writes candidly about aging, loss, and the will to keep creating. Quiet observation and self-scrutiny unfold in a natural register.

A gaze shaped by age softly lights the contours of daily life.

A poetry collection published after a long silence, foregrounding historical memory and political sensitivity. Personal history and cultural history intersect across its layers.

A voice returning after silence reconnects politics and memory.

A nonfiction-leaning story about a young disabled man named Ray. It combines empathy for a life lived in the gaps of institutions with sharp social critique.

A single life story brings questions of institutions and dignity into view.

A linked novel in which the Latina girl Esperanza searches for a place of her own amid the pressures of poverty, gender, and class. Its short vignettes vividly convey the pain and hope of growing up.

Small vignettes open out into the world of one girl's life.

A poetry collection that expands Black women's bodily experience, anger, love, and solidarity through politically charged language. The rhythm of everyday speech becomes a source of force.

Anger and love rise in the same outspoken register.

A poetry collection that weaves together urban voices and personal memory. It keeps the feel of street poetry while bringing community history into focus with humor and urgency.

The city's atmosphere becomes the poem's own breath.

A compact poetry collection that binds Indigenous memory and a sense of land into concise, dense lyrics. Community history and individual voice resonate with quiet urgency.

Memory of land rises sharply within short lines.