By locating the ethical and political questions of otherness in language discourse aesthetics and everyday encounters asian american poets help advance critical studies in race gender and popular culture as well as in poetrythe ethics and poetics of alterity is not limited however to literary studies it is an invaluable response to the questions raised by increasingly globalized . The relationship between self and other entails both ethics and politics as shown in the work of seven contemporary asian american poets in their investigations of the ethical and political questions of otherness these poets demonstrate an intricate relationship among aesthetics poetics and politics which is embedded in a levinasian ethics. Steven g yao the ethics and poetics of alterity in asian american poetry xiaojing zhou iowa city university of iowa press 2006 x 312 pages 3995 clot. Request pdf the ethics and poetics of alterity in asian american poetry poetry by asian american writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary american poetry and a