This long-awaited collection of poetry includes”Aerogrammes,” an account of the author’s journeyto the Chinese homeland; “In the Country ofDreams and Dust,” featuring male and femalevoices in sixteen sections; and “Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames,” a meditation on the L.A. riots from a Buddhist perspective.
Jessica Hagedorn characterizes Leong’s work as “eloquent and mystical”; Ishmael Reed has called it “a breakthrough for the poetry of Diaspora.”