In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripartite “Thee”: the Divine, the Beloved, and the State. A precarious dance between the spiritual and the material ensues, the lyric poem confronting a consumer culture overrun by rampant lust and greed yet finding itself unable to wholly stand outside of what it critiques. Any consolation found herein is short-lived. Even so, by extending the traditions of lyric poetry forward, these utterances seek to enlarge the conversation between art and life, anticipating whatever commerce the future might yet hold.

Of Thee I Sing: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)

Literature & Fiction

Liu, Timothy

Poetry

University of Georgia Press

In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash--they are the lash--and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. --Richard Howard, from the forward

Vox Angelica

Alice James Books

Don't Go Back To Sleep answers the Sufi call to wake up to this life in the here and now where ecstasy serves its summons, inviting us to break out of the mundane quotidian. Timothy Liu winds the clock back to the Nanking Massacre in 1937, then traces its consequences on his family of origin, his mother's mental illness, his father's religious fundamentalism, and Liu's obsessive search for love. As trauma begets trauma the poems slowly accrete, and Liu takes on a legacy of poetic witness where carnal violence ultimately turns to spiritual joy.

Don't Go Back to Sleep

Saturnalia Books

Poetry. "Timothy Liu is a poet faithful to forms of unruliness; devoted to the unembellished and unabashed. Equally committed to a poetic craft that is capable of rearranging reality from the chaos of desire and its surplus of frustration, in his work to date--now organized into major and minor arcana culled from personal archives of encounter and memory, and from an alertness to world politics and history--he has mastered various kinds of forms into works that are unmistakably his own...Inscribing the illusions and disappointment of personality with human relations as subjected to the dramaturgy of sex and desire, Liu commands that we care insomuch as outrageousness and generosity are finally devotion to 'The things loved least / loved at last.'"--Roberto Tejada from the "Foreword"

Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain 1992-2017

Barrow Street Press

The exciting adventure of three heroes on an epic quest to defeat a troublemaking sorceress! Read on as Christina the witch, Rainbow the pony, & Tiger the cyclops join forces to stop Ivy the evil witch from making magical mischief on their home planet, the mystical world of Malur!

Spellbound Story: A Comic created by the Hongyun Art Comic Club

Comics & Graphic Novels

Tang, Olive

Hongyun Art

Liu, Audrey

Yuan, Irene

Tian, Jiani

History & Price Guides

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This year’s Mindy adventure brings us the story of Mango, a stray alley cat who dreams of internet fame! Mango has grand plans to be a big animal star – but he refuses to work with humans! However, if he can steal the magical meteorites that Mindy & her friends use to shape-shift, he won’t have to! What other lengths will Mango go to seek fame, with his scientific genius & his two mysterious allies? How will Mindy, Oscar, & Fonzy get their meteorites back? Read on to find out!

Mindy 6: The Tropical Trio

Tang, Michelle

Ho, Caroline

Cui, Audrey

Wang, Deelia

Tan, Arianna

He, Cindy

Mai, Kim

Graphic Novels

A provocative collection which mines the bond between the spiritual and carnal, the sacred and profane.

Say Goodnight

United States

Copper Canyon Press

Exploring the interlocking forces of sexuality and spirituality, Burnt Offerings continues the trajectory of Liu's first collection of poems, Vox Angelica, which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Nominated for a Lambda Book Award in Gay Men's Poetry.

Burnt Offerings

Flybys and Foci

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Independently published

Down Low and Lowdown: Timothy Liu’s Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues

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