Los Angeles has lost a major poet, one whose verse articulated the experience of Asian Americans long denied presence or representation.

Her renewed national recognition in recent years, a kind of posthumous comeback, strikes me as both welcome and sad, indicative of the hard face L.A. showed its own major poet.

This was the major poet of revolutionary Nicaragua.

I appreciate the introduction to a new major poet.

“It is the missing piece of his career and certainly the most significant revelation about a major poet of the 20th century that we’ve had,” he said.