Introduction : aesthetics contra "identity" in contemporary poetry studies -- Metaphor, desire and assimilation in the poetry of Li-Young Lee -- Reading too much into : Marilyn Chin, translation, and Asian American poetry in the "post-race" era -- Irony's barbarian voices in the poetry of Marilyn Chin -- Undercover Asian : John Yau, parody, and the politics of ethnic identification and self-identification -- Genghis Chan : parodying private eye -- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetics of contingency and relationality -- Subjunctive subjects : Pamela Lu's Pamela : a novel and the poetics and politics of diaspora -- Epilogue : American poetry and poetry criticism in the twenty-first century?
