Poor Anima*
(Apogee Press, 2015)
Debut full-length collection
5.5″ x 8.5″, 88pp., $15.95, ISBN 978-0-985100-77-3
*May be purchased locally at Prologue Bookshop
Praise for Poor Anima:
“Khaty Xiong writes a penumbra poetry. In Poor Anima, lyric and narrative intertwine to form a site where ‘blacknesses trade spaces with each other, extensions/of shadow and smoke.’ Xiong’s poetry is also a sacrificial poetry, both in the sense that it knows and performs ritual, and in the sense that it gives itself up, completely, to currents that it perceives but can’t tame. Don’t be tricked into thinking that Xiong’s limpid language is the result of uncomplicated thinking. These poems are deeply strange, deeply courageous, deeply beautiful. They ‘grow back the mysteriousness passed on/through the exodus we sprang from.’”
—Elizabeth Robinson, author of On Ghosts
“Poor Anima is a brilliant and serious collection of poems; poems that foreground the perils of a ‘trapped tongue’ yet darkly pushing for its articulate cry and sonorous divining. Her poems are a ‘wilderness,’ a ‘place to be among your kind.’ The poems are ‘dear, delightful bones.’ Xiong is gifted—a telepath with language—and her poems straddle a narrative undertow that belies exposition in order to ‘shoot the praying to save yourself.’ This is an extraordinary debut.”
—Prageeta Sharma, author of Undergloom
“Khaty Xiong sings hauntingly of war, violence, and dislocation. Her language, a traumatized body, traverses between welts and wounds, between home and exile.”
—Don Mee Choi, author of The Morning News Is Exciting
—CHAPBOOKS—
Ode to the Far Shore
(Platypus Press, 2016)
Chapbook, double-sided A4 printable PDF (Free)
2412 chapbook series / Nº3
Praise for Ode to the Far Shore:
“This free, concise and solemn collection by Khaty Xiong is heady with the atmosphere of loss but pregnant with that sharp sense of the solitary transition through familial moments, all the while heedful of the miraculous beauty of the surrounding mundane. The grace carried in these five small vessels, moves us not quite across, but out into the open waters where, rocking gently in reflection, that far shore is visible. Take your time with it.”
–David Anthony Martin
Deer Hour 
(New Michigan Press, 2014)
Chapbook, 5″x 8″, 42pp., $9, ISBN 978-1-934832-46-2
Runner-up for DIAGRAM‘s 2014 Chapbook Contest
Praise for Deer Hour:
“Luminous and feral, Deer Hour is part creation documentary of the worlds we build for ourselves with language, part elegy for the fact that it is impossible to generate closure without enclosure. In a world where humanity is bound to ‘red cedars whose secrets keep us logging’ as well as ‘childhood / writing from the front lines,’ Xiong would guide us through the anxieties of being ‘bound in sore action, / unable to reconcile / the wild & the not-wild’ with poetry that is determined to witness while resistant to the complicities of history. Here, as in other crucial, contemporary poetics, the acts of speaking and writing are not halves of a pristine poetic whole, but yearning, expressive portions that remain troubled by the absence of a bearable relationship to the world. The resulting work is of an important new perspective that would liberate us from the dualism of what is sayable and free us into an argument about what is livable. Read this book if you have ever contemplated the institution of civilization, known the love of language, or taken one step toward the wild and opened your eyes.”
—Lo Kwa Mei-en, author of Yearling
Elegies 
(University of Montana, 2013)
Chapbook, 6″x 6″, 64pp., Out of Print
Winner of the 2013 Merriam-Frontier Award