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To Be the Poet, Kingston documents her attempts at adopting poetry as a new medium, and in her 2003 melange of nonfiction and fiction,
The Fifth Book of Peace, she continues Wittman's adventures and also chronicles the tortured path that book took to publication, having been destroyed in a 1991 fire and then rewritten anew.
Renee H. Shea, writing in Poets & Writers, noted that the National Book Award-winning Kingston is credited by many "with opening the door for a whole generation of Asian-America writers." An "agent provocateur," as a contributor for Publishers Weekly dubbed her, Kingston is still best known for her first two works. Another reviewer for Publishers Weekly noted that The Woman Warrior has become "a collegiate fixture and a centerpiece for the Asian-American canon." Pinsker, writing about both The Woman Warrior and China Men, observed that the author often blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction.
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