Ken Yoshikawa’s premier book of poetry, Monster Colored Glasses (Lightship Press, 2019) explores a bilingual narrative of surviving abuse and the return to vulnerability, chasing one’s inner child through the trauma caused by abuse and white supremacy. With the imagery of DnD, technology, monsters and creatures of all sorts, the book approaches the themes of fear, perception, othering, masculinity, yellowface, social responsibility, personal transformation.