Take Out
Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America
Published on 15. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-889876-11-5 (ISBN)
Description
Showcasing new work, "Take Out" captures the freshness of contemporary expressive culture in queer Asian Pacific America. It brings together established and emerging artists to define their personal and collective vision as gays and lesbians. The visual, literary, and performance works in this anthology probe a variety of topics inter-generational relationships, domesticity, pop culture, camp, Hollywood, fairy tales, and Asia. "Take Out" resists summary just as its contributors refuse limits on their artistic expression and attempts to objectify them as people. It is distributed by Temple University Press for the Asian American Writers' Workshop Quang Bao is the current managing director of The Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City. His fiction, essays, and book reviews have appeared in magazines and literary journals including "The Boston Globe", "The Threepenny Review", "The New York Times", "Open City", "Lambda Book Report", "Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose" (AAWW/Temple University Press), "Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of Twenty Young Writers", and "The Asian American Literature Textbook".
Hanya Yanagihara is an editor at the magazine "Brill's Content" and the e-publishing company Contentville.com. She is also the editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's "Asian Pacific American Journal" and serves on the board of directors of Kaya Productions, a non-profit publishing concern focusing on literature of the Asian and Pacific Diaspora. She lives in New York.
Hanya Yanagihara is an editor at the magazine "Brill's Content" and the e-publishing company Contentville.com. She is also the editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's "Asian Pacific American Journal" and serves on the board of directors of Kaya Productions, a non-profit publishing concern focusing on literature of the Asian and Pacific Diaspora. She lives in New York.
Reviews / Votes
"Take Out is a broad, jostling mural, full of memorable images, a huge freeze-frame of this moment in American life. The restless, crowded canvass of this anthology does just what its editors set out to do: complicated our sense of what it is to be queer and Asian American now." --Mark Doty, author of Heaven's Coast and Firebird "A veritable banquet of delicacies, Take Out bursts out, from seamy to steamy, traversing ethnicity and culture, love and lust, gender and generation, discovery and abandonment, class and consciousness. Some offerings embrace you like a long, slow kiss, others are a raw grope in the dark. Each is a revelation, a journey into queer and Asian/Pacific America." --Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People Bringing together established and emerging artists from the Asian and Pacific Diaspora, Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America serves up a fresh blend of literary and visual pieces that delve into contemporary gay Asian American culture and experiences. With nearly 50 contributors, this anthology covers a variety of topics from multiple angles including pop culture, inter-generational relationships, camp, and much more. Edited by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara, Take Out also features the work of New York hometown favorites Joneil Adriano, Dan Bacalzo, Regie Cabico, Alexander Chee, Richard Kiamco, Daniel Lee, Donald Lee, Mei Ng, Sharon Sookram, and Andrew Spieldenner. Bao is the current managing director of the Asian American Writer's Workshop's Asian Pacific American Journal. --Anngel Delaney, New York Blade NewsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-889876-11-5 (9781889876115)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
POETRY LISA ASAGI Physics DAN BACALZO I'm Sorry, But I Don't Speak the Language REGIE CABICO Love Letter From Andrew Cunanan My Perfect Silence JUSTIN CHIN Faith I Buy Sea Monkeys BAD-LONG CHU Durian MINAL HAJRATWALA Father's Sisters The In and the Out PAOLO JAVIER Hearing Forms Untitled October Snap DANIEL LEE Limerick to a Bitchy Drag Queen Request When Letting Go/Fucking JONATHAN H.X. LEE On a Broken Thread CHEN LIN To Grow a One-Hundred-Pound Cabbage Paper CHING CHING LING Lunch Date/Wish List R. ZAMORA LINMARK A Letter to Claire Danes from a Fan in Manilla Sensory for Nine Shabusers TIMOTHY LIU The Rand McNally Road Atlas Thoreau MAIANA MINAHAL poem of thanks to all the poets in poetry for three nights/one hundred thirty poems MATT UlAGALElLEl Letters Love Poem A party goes on VIN G . WOLFE My Auntie PROSE JONEIL ADRIANO Constellations NOEL ALUMIT Selena on the Wall ALEXANDER CHEE Burn PHILIP HUANG Baby The Interview T.C. HUO A Deep Blush R . SKY KOGACHI Wrist LARISSA LAI The Salt Fish Girl Fish Bones DONALD LEE Extra Butter RUSSELL CHARLES LEONG Phoenix Eyes R . ZAMORA LINMARK Saved by Bertolucci E.G. LOUIE Wonderland MEI NG Bees ANDY W AN What I Really Hate Calendar Boy NINA REVOYR Kenji, 1955 SHYAM SELVADURAI Pigs Can't Fly SVATI SHAH Grass RICCO VILLANUEVA SIASOCO Squatters MOHAN SIKKA Alpha Hydroxy NATASHA SINGH For All the Indian Girls I've Ever Loved SHARON SOOKRAM Searching for Love in New Paltz ANDREW SPIELDENNER Georgia Red Dirt OSCAR E. SUN The Horrible Other SEG SUN A Delicate Matter CRAIG TAKEUCHI The Breath and the Body JOEL BARRAQUIEL TAN Papa Jun and Me ERIC C . WAT From Vegas, With Love NlTA YAMASHITA A Star Is Born DRAMA NOEL ALUMIT The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar RICHARD KIAMCO Powershowgirl: Unaccessorized ALEC MAPA Pointless DAN TAULAPAPA MCMULLIN The Bat The Doll O Kaulaiku KATHRYN XlAN The Problem with Being CHAY YEW White VISUAL ART GAYE CHAM Queer Girl Queer Boy KEN CHU Queer n' Asian Number One Gay Son EIKI MORl Untitled 1 Untitled 2 PAUL PFEIFFER Fragment of a Crucifixion Memento Mori SLAAAP!/APICHA (SEXUALLY LIBERATED ART ACTIVIST ASIAN PEOPLE) Love is Never Safe, but Sex Can Be When You Look at Me, What Do You See? HO TAM Ray / Calvin Peter/John from Matinee Idols Flower Series JlMM TRAN Afro-Merican Bedspread BrokenAmericanDreamsGirl Farheen with Pepsi Pho Girl from Self Identities About the Contributors Afterword by TIMOTHY LIU