"Celebrating Chinese American girlhood in all its confusion, love, and loss.In I Wore My Blackest Hair, Fulbright grant and Edna Meudt Memorial Award recipient Carlina Duan delivers an electric debut collection of poetry. With defiance and wild joy, Duan’s poems wrestle with and celebrate ancestry and history, racial consciousness, and the growing pains of girlhood. They explore difficult truths with grace and power. I Wore My Blackest H ..."
Alien Miss(First Edition) (Wisconsin Poetry Series) by Duan, Carlina Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-33134-4, ISBN: 0-299-33134-2
"" The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland."
"They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets is a collection of hundreds of contemporary poems by both established and emerging Asian American Women Poets."
Here I Go, Torching by Duan, Carlina Paperback, 38 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace ISBN-13: 978-1-5118-0700-5, ISBN: 1-5118-0700-8
"Here I Go, Torching encompasses everyday narratives of loves, losses and ailments, documenting "American girlhood" and ultimately redefining it. In these poems, Carlina Duan questions: What, and who, is an "American girl"?"