fb pixcode

My Cart
Gift Certificates

POETRY

PUBLISHER
Kaya Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 85   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781885030757 TRADE
List Price: $18.95 CAD $25.95 GBP £14.99

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

THE FALL 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our FALL 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

KAYA PRESS

Book of the Other: small in comparison

By Truong Tran. Foreword by Bhanu Kapil.

A furious, multiform examination of the devastation wrought by anti-Asian racism in America

Truong Tran’s provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, Book of the Other resists the luxury of metaphor to write about the experience of being shut out, shut down and othered as a queer, working-class teacher, immigrant and refugee.
What emerges from Tran’s sharp-eyed experiments in language and form is an achingly beautiful acknowledgment of the estrangement from self forced upon those seduced by the promise of color-blind acceptance and the rigorous, step by step act of recollection needed to find one's way home to oneself.
Truong Tran was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1969. He is the author of six previous collections of poetry, The Book of Perceptions, Placing the Accents, Dust and Conscience, Within the Margins, Four Letter Words and 100 words (coauthored with Damon Potter). He also authored the children’s book Going Home Coming Home, and an artist monograph, I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar. He is the recipient of the Poetry Center Prize, the Fund for Poetry Grant, the California Arts Council Grant and numerous San Francisco Arts Commission Grants. Tran lives in San Francisco where he teaches art and poetry.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Poetry Project Newsletter

Kirby Chen Mages

And though he relishes in the pleasure of inventing his own language, by no means does he want to hold the exclusive rights to it. He welcomes others to consider how they are interpreting the language. How we would write our own language. To tell our own stories. He invites others into his house.

Book of the Other: small in comparison

in stock  $18.95


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FORTHCOMING AND NEW: FICTION AND POETRY

Little Castles of Bohemia

LITTLE CASTLES OF BOHEMIA

Wakefield Press

ISBN: 9781962728089
USD $17.95
| CAD $24.95 UK £ 13.99

Pub Date: 10/14/2025
Forthcoming


Earthly

EARTHLY

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798991298858
USD $18.95
| CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Paces the Cage

PACES THE CAGE

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798991298865
USD $18.95
| CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99

Pub Date: 11/4/2025
Forthcoming


Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike

BEHIND THE STATE CAPITOL: OR CINCINNATI PIKE

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798991298872
USD $25.00
| CAD $35 UK £ 20

Pub Date: 11/4/2025
Forthcoming


City Terrace Field Manual

CITY TERRACE FIELD MANUAL

Kaya Press

ISBN: 9781885030870
USD $18.95
| CAD $26.95 UK £ 14.99

Pub Date: 2/11/2026
Forthcoming


Biography of a Fiction

BIOGRAPHY OF A FICTION

After 8 Books

ISBN: 9782492650185
USD $18.00
| CAD $25

Pub Date: 11/18/2025
Forthcoming


Cecco Bonanotte: La Divina Commedia  (The Divine Comedy)

CECCO BONANOTTE: LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (THE DIVINE COMEDY)

SKIRA

ISBN: 9788857251004
USD $35.00
| CAD $52.5

Pub Date: 3/25/2025
Active | In stock


The Selkie

THE SELKIE

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798987828847
USD $18.95
| CAD $27.95 UK £ 15.95

Pub Date: 5/28/2024
Active | In stock


Hereafter

HEREAFTER

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798987828854
USD $18.95
| CAD $27.95 UK £ 15.95

Pub Date: 6/25/2024
Active | In stock


Saturday

SATURDAY

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798987828878
USD $18.95
| CAD $27.95 UK £ 15.95

Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Active | In stock


Many Poems

MANY POEMS

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798987828885
USD $18.95
| CAD $27.95 UK £ 15.95

Pub Date: 1/14/2025
Active | In stock


Cold Dogs

COLD DOGS

The Song Cave

ISBN: 9798987828861
USD $18.95
| CAD $27.95 UK £ 15.95

Pub Date: 9/17/2024
Active | In stock