Kim-An Lieberman

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Three of Kim-An's poems are featured in a new anthology from University of Hawai'i Press.


My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present

Edited by Michele Janette
University of Hawai'i Press, 2011

"My Viet presents a rich, varied, and provocative collection of literary work that explores Vietnam from many Vietnamese points of view, sees America through a specifically Vietnamese American lens, and broadens the scope of Vietnamese American literature to its fullest extent."

"Kim-An Lieberman's latest collection of poems, Breaking the Map, examines her heritage in intelligent, unsentimental ways. Even when she doesn't write autobiographical poems...she's writing about why we're here. She finds delicious, unexpected answers."
- Paul Constant, The Stranger

"Kim-An Lieberman’s gorgeous poems don’t just map human experience, they crawl through its dust, searching. Her subjects are sometimes mythical, fanciful—a lover sprouts wings, a water buffalo arrives in the suburbs—but even the mundane is magnified by language that is startling, and exquisitely precise..."
- Kathleen Flenniken, Floating Bridge Press

"...whatever forty-year-old image we might still remember from Vietnam or America that is part real and part television, she makes whole, new, and vibrant. She makes us a witness more than reader."
- Shawn Wong, Author of Homebase and American Knees