From the Stacks is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose books that have been important to them and/or that they recommend.
Muriel Leung is from Queens, NY. Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, Ghost Proposal, Jellyfish Magazine, inter|rupture, and others. She is a recipient of a Kundiman fellowship and is a regular contributor to The Blood-Jet Writing Hour poetry podcast. She is also the Poetry Co-Editor for Apogee Journal. She will attend USC's PhD program in Creative and Literature in the fall.
Her first book Bone Confetti is forthcoming from Noemi Press in October 2016.
Muriel's selections From the Stacks are:
Ardor by Karen An-Hwei Lee
Dura by Myung Mi Kim
Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
Life in a Box is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin
Milk & Filth by Carmen Giménez Smith
Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey
A Bestiary by Lily Hoang