An Anthology of Asian-American Writers 
 
Eds. Frank Chin, Jeffrey Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, & Shawn Wong. 
 
Howard: 1974. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Chipping along the top, bottom, and folds of the price-clipped jacket. A bit of soiling down the folds as well. Rubbing on the lettering on the boards. Mild foxing on the text block. Underlining in some of the excerpts and pen markings on the table of contents. Inscribed by Wong to Jeanne and Jim Houston, authors of Farewell to Manzanar. 200 pages. Book very good, jacket good.  
 
In 1974 less than ten volumes of fiction or poetry had been published by Asian-American authors in the U.S. AIIIEEEEE! spreads its embrace across the untapped talent working in genres from surrealistic poetry to autobiography and with countries of descent from the Philippines to China. 
 
"The language is strong, the characters are forceful, the authors are arrogant and proud. The works explore the problems of self-contempt and the overriding anxiety concerning the dual identity in which the Asian-American feels he must decide whether to be white or Asian.  The editors say of their work, 'Asia-America, so long ignored and forcibly excluded from creative participation in American culture, is wounded, sad, angry, swearing, and wondering, this is our AIIIEEEEE! It is more than a whine, shout, or scream. This is fifty years of our whole voice.'"