num_pages: 290
description: 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 (detail) ; 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 &amp; 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
language: English
title: The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
titlecomplete: The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
genres: LGBT, American History, Fiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 26
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Calyx Books