Writing
Criticism
Book
Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Journal Articles
“Oriental Cities, Postmodern Futures: Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer.” MELUS 33.4 (Winter 2008): 45-73.
“Traveling Genres and the Failure of Asian American Short Fiction.” Genre 39.4: 23-41.
“‘The Hand of a Chinese Master’: José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism.” MELUS 29.1 (Spring 2004): 41-59.
“Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry.” Contemporary Literature 41.3 (Fall 2000): 422-61.
Book Articles
“Asian/American Modernisms: José Garcia Villa’s Transnational Poetics.” Pinoy Poetics. Ed. Nick Carbó. San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2004. 343-67.
Essays and Reviews
Review of Yunte Huang, Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics. CLIO 38.2, forthcoming.
Review of Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics. MELUS 33.4 (Winter 2008): 219-23.
Review of Edward Marx, The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry. Modern Philology 105.4 (May 2008): 749-52.
Review of Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film, ed. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden. University of Toronto Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2008): 430-1.
Review of Culture, Identity, Commodity: Disaporic Chinese Literatures in English, ed. Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie. University of Toronto Quarterly 76.1 (Winter 2007): 621-2.
Review of Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy, Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). University of Toronto Quarterly 76.1 (Winter 2007): 605-7.
Review of Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, ed. Victoria Chang. Chicago Review 51.4-52.1 (Spring 2006): 222-230.
“How to Write a Chinese Poem.” Meanjin 63.2 (2004): 73-9.
“Familiar Flowers: Robert Creeley at the University of Chicago.” ChicagoPostmodernPoetry.com, April 2004.
“Poet in the House of Frankenstein.” Review of John Yau, Borrowed Love Poems. Free Verse 3 (Winter 2003).
“Inside Out.” Cordite 11 (September 2002). http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14234/20021128/cordite.org.au/11/yu,review.html
Poetry
Chapbooks
Journey to the West. Winner of the Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman. Barrow Street, Winter 2006.
Postcard Poems: Tim Yu and Cassie Lewis. Poetry Espresso, 2003.
Immersion. Cambridge, MA: Peerless Publishing, 1995.
Journals and Anthologies
“Love Poem.” In SHAMPOO 33.
“Asian American Poem #5” and “Asian American Poem #6.” In Abraham Lincoln 2.
“Elephant & Castle [12]” and “I’m Pretty Sure Bison Art.” The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. Ed. Raymond Bianchi and William Allegrezza. Chicago: Cracked Slab, 2008. 191-3.
“A Tour of the Canadian Rockies.” In SHAMPOO 31.
“How to Control a Runaway Camel,” “White Plaza,” “Waiting Room (3),” “The City at the End of the Rainbow,” “We Would Like to Acquire.” In Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, 1 March 2007.
“San Francisco,” “Tipping Point,” “The Magnificent Mile,” “Skunky Hour,” “Elephant & Castle [19].” In Seven Corners, 27 February 2007.
“Fresh Gear,” “Rematch,” “Waiting Room (1)”, “Waiting Room (2),” “Elephant & Castle [10],” “Elephant & Castle [11].” In 2nd Avenue Poetry 2.
"Miss Teen Your Name Here," "Stanzas Beginning with Some Lines of Rumsfeld," and "Elephant & Castle [2]." In foam:e 1.
Long Nose Pinnochio Bitch. With Jonathan Mayhew, K. Silem Mohammad, and Stephanie Young. Oakland: Inappropriate Press, 2003.
"Journal of Capt. S.," "Aphorisms," "Risk Theory," "PR3562.L34 1973," "TD763.N37 1976," "If Kite, Flame." In Interlope 9 (August 2003), 3-12.
Selection from tympan [April 19, 2003 entry, on Lorine Niedecker]. In The Poetry Project Newsletter 195 (June-Sept. 2003), 10-11.
"Whatever You Want Is What You Want: 21 Responses for Jim Behrle." In Popular Mechanics, ed. Jim Behrle.
"AC899.A52 P c.1," "Conversation Poem (unauthorized)," and "AC899 A52P." In Mirage #4/Period(ical) #99, March 2002.
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