Good Son

Also available at Brooklyn Poets, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

“In Good Son, Kyle Liang writes, ‘In a translation of my body / floating is all that matters.’ In this biting and heartfelt debut collection, Liang explores the complexities of identity and the survival mechanisms we create to live in a cruel world. Sometimes tender and sometimes a fever dream, these poems wrestle with language and its barriers as a speaker navigates different worlds—of medicine, of family, of memory, of being Asian in America. What comes out of this collection is an affirmation that love and connection are necessary to keep going.” – Jennifer Huang

How to Build a House

Winner of the 2017 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest

Also available on Amazon

“Both a song of survival and a summoning of ghosts, “How to Build a House” is not only a record but a recovery, a shipyard of stories that reckon with what it means to be displaced, to haunt your own home. In this reclamation of history and lineage, a “house” is more than a place: it’s a body, a blade edge, a belonging to the wounds that birthed us. With hunger and tenderness, Liang writes the Taiwan Strait as a specter, a gutter of grief. But he also shows us where loss makes its second life in the light. I am grateful for this haunting, for the way Liang sets all maps ablaze and rebuilds a home from the ashes. I belong to this book like a bloodline. When Liang asks, “When is a boat considered an island,” he answers by writing migration as mother tongue, showing us that we are our own homelands.” – Kristin Chang