In this third collection of poems, Timothy Liu has extended his already considerable range in meticulous poems that are sometimes shocking, sometimes consoling, but consistently vivid in imagery and consequence. Marilyn Hacker has noted that Liu's "Eros is agape also", and in Say Goodnight, his spirit of generosity once again shines through his subjects like an eternal light through the transparency of a world most people take for granted. From Ku Klux Klan murders to Rodin's sculptures, from the third century Chinese poet Lu Chi to a modern-day gay bashing, Liu greets savagery and beauty alike -- with tender intelligence, a wise eye for revealing detail, and a disciplined ear tuned to the line.

Poetry. "Timothy Liu's poems are characterized by a unique mixture of the profane and the spiritual, and of the brutal and the tender. I admire their clarity and their sure art. A few of them, ' Thoreau,' 'Sunday,' 'Manifest Destiny,' 'Survivors,' are masterful "-Gerald Stern.

This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-a-vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Summer 2010 issue, "The Lavender Issue: LGBT Literature Today" is guest edited by award-winning poet, Timothy Liu, featuring poets Eileen Myles, Edward Field, Mary Meriam, Roberto Tejada and others. Essays by Ana Louise Keating, David Bergman and NS.