Border Vista (Persea Books) was the winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was named a Best Poetry Book of 2022 by the New York Times. You can buy it at your local bookstore, from Bookshop.org, or reach out directly if you’d like a signed copy.
What others have to say about the book:
“Inviting, dark and quiet, like a museum at night, the poems in Border Vista, by Anni Liu, are about change and transition, about memory (the noun, the keepsake) and remembering (the verb, the practice). They are also, always, highly attentive to language. . . . Liu’s work often holds something in reserve, as dreams do, so that “astonishment of insight” (as William Meredith put it) is especially striking when it arrives.”—Elisa Gabbert, The New York Times Book Review
“Liu’s poems are confiding, lithe, and vital, pulling one urgently forward. And yet each line, vivid and visceral in its imagery and emotion, is meticulously composed, the internal rhythms and rhymes exquisitely expressive, the range of implication extending as the story moves into the shadows and light of the narrator’s adulthood.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist
“These poems brilliantly excavate a cognitive dissonance the speaker experiences as a ‘double-edged feeling.’”—Layla Benitez-James, The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog
“Astonishing. . . . I have scarcely in my life encountered more rapt and rapturous looking—or maybe I mean more enchanted looking, or maybe I mean enchanted listening. . . . These poems are so goddamned close, born perhaps “of an ancient sadness of being / just one thing.” or of “that skinless feeling . . . [y]our own endlessly permeable self,’ but either way, born—this I feel pretty sure of—to draw us together, to render us closer, to imagine us, maybe, borderless.”—Ross Gay
“Anni Liu’s vision never wavers as we are threaded through the complexities of memory, status, and country. This is a masterful, singular debut.”—Janine Joseph
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