Tell it SlantPoems that consider doubleness and truth telling through the voice of an Asian American poet, while referencing a range of writers and pop culture figures. Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems with the oft quoted line, Tell all the truth but tell it slant." For Asian Americans, the word slant can be heard and read two ways, as both a racializing and an obscuring term. It is this sense of doublenessculminating in the instability of language and an