This collection of poetry by the 1970 Discovery Award winner speaks of the author’s Chinese American heritage: his ancestors in China, his family in Hawai‘i, and forging a Chinese American identity. He also speaks of racial discrimination and the obscenity of ethnic stereotypes with astute and unforgiving clarity.

"Lum’s style is an unembellished line of measured prose, setting out a message in direct declarations . . . his straight forward descriptions take their impact from thatvery detachment." — The New Paper

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award and the 1988 Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award.

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