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The Forbidden Stitch

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An Asian-American Women’s Anthology

Edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly

American Book Award

Winner of the American Book Award, this book represents, as Mayumi Tsutakawa puts it in the introduction, “a fine diversity of Asian American women who may claim their native soil in Oakland or Tucson or Manila or New Delhi. These writers and artists, many of them young or publishing for the first time, are breaking down a barrier to make a statement. Wherever they live, in an Asian ghetto or as the only Asian family in a suburban subdivision or Midwest college town, they are dealing with the majority culture daily. They are, in many cases, living with spouses or children who don’t know/don’t care about/for the Asian culture the woman may tenaciously cling to.” Co-editor Shirley Geok-lin Lim adds: “the voices found in The Forbidden Stitch are so plural as to cast doubt on the unity of the anthology.… If the stitch is multi-colored and complexly knotted, still it holds together a dazzling quilt.” This ground-breaking first Asian American women’s anthology breaks barriers of invisibility that Asian American women have faced. Among the more than 80 writers and artists are Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Diana Chang, Marilyn Chin, Jessica Hagedorn, Mayuni Oda, Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, and Mitsuye Yamada.

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Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published six books including a book of memoirs that also received the American Book Award. Mayumi Tsutakawa is an independent writer, editor, and visual arts curator. Margarita Donnelly is the Director of CALYX.

POETRY
Marilyn Chin We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra
Myung Mi Kim Into Such Assembly
A Rose of Sharon
Rose Furuya Hawkins Excerpts from Proud Upon an Alien Shore
Sujata Bhatt Go to Ahmedabad
Muliebrity
Chitra Divakaruni At Muktinath
Virginia R. Cerenio Family Photos: Black and White: 1960
Marian Yee The Handbook of Sex of the Plain Girl
Wintermelons
Kyoko Mori Heat in October
Mitsuye Yamada The Club
Nellie Wong For an Asian Woman Who Says My Poetry Gives Her a Stomachache
Stephanie Sugioka Legacy
Shalin Hai-Jew Father’s Belt
Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher After Delivering Your Lunch
Higashiyama Crematorium, November 16, 1983
The Way April Leads to Autumn
Diana Chang On Being in the Midwest
On the Fly
Carolyn Lau Zhoukoudian Bride’s Harvest
Tina Koyama Currents
Downtown Seattle in the Fog
Song-jook Park, Translated by Hyun-jae Yee Sallee On Such a Day
Merle Woo untitled
Whenever You’re Cornered, the Only Way Out Is to Fight
Myrna Peña Reyes San Juan
Toads Mate and Father Cleans the Pool
Jessica Hagedorn The Song of Bullets
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Duration of Water
Chronicle
Genny Lim Children Are Color-Blind
Sharon Mashimoto Standing in the Doorway, I watch the Young Child Sleep
Eleven A.M. on My Day Off, My Sister Phones Desperate for a Babysitter
Arlene Naganawa Learning to Swim
Jean Yamasaki Toyama Red
Susan K.C. Lee Letters from Turtle Beach
Alison Kim Sewing Women
Shirley Geok-lin Lim Pantoun for Chinese Women
Visiting Malacca
PROSE
Kyoko Mori Yellow Mittens and Early Violets
Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn
Valerie Matsumoto Two Deserts
Siu Wai Anderson Autumn Gardening
Susan K.C. Lee A Letter for Dar
Marianne Villanueva Siko
Shirley Geok-lin Lim Native Daughter
Mei Mei Evans Gussuk
Fae Myenne Ng Last Night
Diana Chang The Oriental Contingent
Betty LaDuke Miné Okubo: An American Experience
Tahira Naqvi Paths upon Water
Talat Abbasi Sari Petticoats
Anjana Appachana To Rise Above
My Only Gods
ART
Lori Kayo Hatta Obachan Hatta, Kailua-Kona Fields
Obachan Hatta, Kaimalino Housing
Obachan Matano, Honolulu
Tomie Arai Self Portrait
Portrait of a Japanese Girl
Rice Eaters
Garden
Chinese Family
Yong Soon Min Back of the Bus, 1953
American Friend
Echoes of Gold Mountain
Whirl War
Roberta May Wong All Orientals Look Alike
All Orientals Look Alike (detail)
Patti Marashina Manning the Shroud
A Procession
Judy Hiramoto Cactus Heart
Fool’s Play
Desert
Piano Solo
Carol Matsuyoshi Fish Jumping
Elaine S. Yoneoka Ring of Forgotten Knowledge
Mayumi Oda Mamala the Surf Rider
Samansabadra
Myung Kim Oh Kite
Baek-do
Alison Kim untitled
Betty Nobue Kano To Winnie Mandela
Masako Miyata Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Tattooed Geta with Two States
Miné Okubo Girl with Vase of Flowers
Cat with Flags
Drawings from Citizen 13660
BOOK REVIEWS
Shirley Geok-lin Lim Picture Bride by Cathy Song
Asian-American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings & Their Social Context by Elaine H. Kim
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Jessica Saiki Dangerous Music by Jessica Hagedorn
Janice Bishop What Matisse Is After by Diana Chang
Marian Yee In the City of Contradictions by Fay Ciang
Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park by Nellie Wong
Camp Notes and Other Poems by Mitsuye Yamada
Margo P. Harder Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Marianne Villanueva Wings of Stoneby Linda Ty-Casper
Amy Ling Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Kit Quan With Silk Wings: Asian American Women at Work by Elaine H. Kim with Janice Otani
Julia Watson This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Phyllis Edelson Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, No Man’s Grove, Another Country and Other Stories by Shirley Lim
Shalin Hai-Jew Summits Move with the Tide, The Heat Bird by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin by Ai
Dwarf Bamboo by Marilyn Chin
Michelle Yokoyama Angel Island Prisoner 1922 by Helen Chetin
Reviews

“Well written and worthy of notice…enormous talent…a breakthrough book.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Asian American women writers step out of the shadows of anonymity, beyond the cultural boundaries of forbidden subjects, to reveal an often stunning radiance…a monumental task…chosen with admirable focus and sensitivity.” —The Seattle Times

“New voices, new visions and new challenges simultaneously merge and diverge in this groundbreaking anthology.” —Amerasia

“A remarkable Asian-American women’s anthology…which celebrates the rich variety of emerging work.” —Valerie Miner, The Nation

“Beautiful, touching writing.” Christian Science Monitor

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