Vox Angelica Author:Timothy Liu Timothy Liu is a gay Asian American poet. The volatile poems in this, his first book, are "perhaps accounted for by his luxuriant circumstance as a young Asian of conflicted Christian (Mormon) faith, the conflict deriving in part from a flagitious homosexuality and in part from an alienated maternal bond indeed an acknowledged bondage to what we... more » have learned to call the Devouring Mother." (Richard Howard, from the foreward.) Vox Angelica received the 1992 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.« less