All My Heroes Are Broke is a poetry collection written from the perspective of a first-generation American coming to terms with the implicit struggles and disillusionment of the “American Dream.” All My Heroes Are Broke primarily uses two forms: short, image driven poems inspired by the works of Robert Bly and Po Chu-I; and longer narrative poems that reveal more personal information about the speaker, in the manner of Li-Young Lee and Frank O’Hara, allowing the speaker to project his own life onto the surroundings and the people of those larger communities.