Bold words : a century of Asian American writing / edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga.

Includes indexes.

PART 1 - MEMOIR: Introduction: The Voice That Passes through Me, An Interview with Meena Alexander / ESTHER IWANAGA AND RAJINI SRIKANTH -- How My Stories Were Written / CARLOS BULOSAN -- The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains / MAXINE HONG KINGSTON -- The Faintest Echo of Our Language / CHANG-RAE LEE -- From Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands / SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM -- [from] My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS / ABRAHAM VERGHESE -- [from] Where the Body Meets Memory / DAVID MURA -- [from] Ono Ono Girl's Hula / CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU -- Pa / LOUNG UNG.

PART 2 - POETRY: Introduction: Absorbing and Being Absorbed by Poetry / EILEEN TABIOS -- (Untitled) / FRANCES CHUNG -- Filling the Gap / LAWSON FUSAO INADA -- Thirty Years Under / MITSUYE YAMADA -- Cincinnati / MITSUYE YAMADA -- Smokey's Getting Old / JESSICA HAGEDORN -- Recipe / JANICE MIRIKITANI -- Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act? / JANICE MIRIKITANI -- Yellow Light / GARRETT HONGO -- The Gift / LI-YOUNG LEE -- Urban Love Songs / WING TEK LUM -- The Chocolatier / TINA KOYAMA -- Strawberries / ERIC CHOCK -- This Room and Everything in It / LI-YOUNG LEE -- [from] "In Search of Evanescence" / AGHA SHAHID ALI -- Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipino Maids / Alfred A. Yuson -- Not Much Art / INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM -- Ceylon / INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM -- The Floral Apron / MARILYN CHIN -- Kala Gave Me Anykine Advice Especially about Filipinos When I Moved to Pahala / LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA -- A Conservative View / CATHY SONG -- The Founding of Yuba City / CHITRA DIVAKARUNI -- Prints / CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY -- Reading the Poem about the Yew Tree / REETIKA VAZIRANI News of the World / MEENA ALEXANDER -- The Young of Tiananmen / MEENA ALEXANDER -- They Don't Think Much about Us in America / ALFRREDO NAVARRO SALANGA -- Walls / LUIS H. FRANCIA -- Beetle on a String / VINCE GOTERA -- Ch'onmun Hak / WALTER K. LEW -- Zenith / BARBARA TRAN -- The Bitterness of Bodies We Bear / BAO-LONG CHU -- The Dead / LINH DINH -- Sister Play / LAN DUONG -- [from] The Redshifting Web / ARTHUR SZE -- Projections / CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY.

PART 3 - FICTION: Introduction: In That Valley Beautiful Beyond / GARY PAK -- In the Land of the Free / SUI SIN FAR -- The Story of a Letter / CARLOS BULOSAN -- He Who Has the Laughing Face / TOSHIO MORI -- Seventeen Syllables / HISAYE YAMAMOTO -- [from] No-No Boy / JOHN OKADA -- [from] Clay Walls / KIM RONYOUNG -- Melpomene Tragedy THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA -- Railroad Standard Time / FRANK CHIN -- Batista and Tania Aparecida Djapan / KAREN TEI YAMASHITA -- The Valley of the Dead Air/ GARY PAK -- Rated-L / R. Zamora Linmark -- Our Lady of Kalihi / R. ZAMORA LINMARK -- A New Beginning / JOHN YAU -- Kim / JANA MONJI -- Seeds / MONIQUE T. D. TRUONG -- Fredo Avila / GINA APOSTOL -- A Difference of Background / NURUL KABIR -- Elvis of Manila / ERIC GAMALINDA -- [from] Monkey King / PATRICIA CHAO -- [from] A Cab Called Reliable / PATTI KIM -- The Goddess of Sleep / GINU KAMANI -- [from] The Necessary Hunger / NINA REVOYR -- Western Music / LINH DINH -- Chagrin / TAHIRA NAQVI -- [from] The Foreign Student SUSAN CHOI -- Show and Tell / ANDREW LAM -- Mrs. Sen's / JHUMPA LAHIRI -- The Shylocks / Cynthia Ignacio.

PART 4 - DRAMA: Introduction: Asian American Theater Awake at the Millennium / ROBERTA UNO -- [from] Eye of the Coconut / JEANNIE BARROGA -- [from] Assimilation / SHISHIR KURUP -- Mask Dance / RICK SHIOMI -- [from] Mua He Do Lual Red Fiery Summer / LE THI DIEM THUY -- [from] Three Lives / ALEX LUU -- [from] Texas / JUDY SOO HOO. Appendix 1: Themes and Topics. Appendix 2: Ethnicity of Authors. Glossary. About the Contributors. About the Editors. Copyrights and Permissions. Index of Authors and Titles.