This book bundle by Ugly Duckling Presse spanning mediums, genres, geographies, and histories and features a mix of both contemporary and "forgotten" Asian and Asian-American literary theorists, translators, and poets.

It contains the following selections from the 2020 Pamphlet Series:

• Don Mee Choi's Translation Is A Mode=Translation Is an Anti Neo-colonial Mode
• Tammy Nguyen's Phong Nha, the Making of an American Smile
• Sawako Nakayasu's Say Translation Is Art

It also includes the following poetry collections:

• The Proscenium by Vi Khi Nao
• Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi

the experimental performance text

• Costume en Face: A Primer of Darkness For Young Boys and Girls by Tatsumi Hijikata.

Finally, the bundle features an original broadside print of Chia-Lun Chang's poem, "If I Were Born In America."

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. Through the efforts of a volunteer editorial collective, UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a mission-driven small press that has published more than 400 titles to date, and produced countless prints and ephemera.

UDP favors emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist's books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.

UDP is committed to keeping its publications in circulation with our online archive of out-of-print chapbooks and our digital proofs program. In all of its activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.

This item was kindly donated by Ugly Duckling Presse

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