LOO- STRANGERS IN A HOMELAND-Jeffrey Loo's poems are delicately lyrical meditations of great tensile strength - more than enough for their weighty subjects, politics and history. While his own ethnic struggle in and with America informs the writing, his vision is broad, and his inmost focus is not critique but empathy, as evoked by his elegy for Etheridge Knight, a masterpiece. -- David Moolten, author of Plums and Ashes