Ed's work deals with war, generational trauma, and colonialism, but he approaches those subjects with a cool-eyed observational stance. The reader isn't let off the hook, but invited to accompany the narrator as he processes what he sees and how it relates to past experience. These poems have an often theatrical quality (Ed is also a playwright), muddling the space between narrator and spectator, and creating an enlivening intimacy with the speaker. CHP's Asian American list is one that we're exceptionally proud ofit's deep, and old, and represents a breadth of voices who speak to the spectrum of experience, identity, and interest, and Ed will not only benefit from that context, he's an important part of why we have a reputation for that work in the first place.