Eric Chock’s second poetry collection, both intensely personal and historically expansive, tells of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and return to home and family. Structured in four parts, each section reads as a part of the life cycle and as a sort of poetic historical document, chronicling o [...]
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In her first collection of poetry, Juliet S. Kono shares her family's immigrant past and captures in poetic memory a time and place. Rich in detail, the work spans two generations and examines the daily events of life on the sugar plantation and growing up Japanese American in Hawai'i on the Big Is [...]
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Juliet S. Kono's second book, Tsunami Years, packs an unexpectedly hard poetic punch. From the first section, which grips you in the hilariously poignant caring for a mother-in-law with Alzheimer's Disease, to the ending section where another kind of madness drives a son over the edge, you will fee [...]
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In the fifty years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, countless victims have recorded the tragedy and the effect on their lives in tanka poems. Yet, few outside Japan are aware of these emotional reminders. Dr. Jiro Nakano has selected and translated into English one hundred of th [...]
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A devout poet-philosopher and practitioner, Saijo is committed to illuminating his vision for others through language. Realizing all the while the inherent limitations of this construct we call language, Saijo expounds upon the ineffable as much as is humbly and humanly possible. Saijo is the autho [...]
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Don Blanding gave voice in cheerful and whimsical style to his love of Hawai‘i, his adopted home. For many delighted readers his poems kept alive their romantic dreams of an island paradise.

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Paradise Loot by Don Blanding Some of these poems were written after Don Blanding had left the islands and express the homesickness he felt when, for example, he passed a florist shop in New York and caught the fragrance of island flowers. No one has ever had such skill in using words to paint glori [...]
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Ho`oulumahiehie’s Hawaiian version of this grand tale makes up one volume of this pair of wonderful books, its companion text a full English translation by Puakea Nogelmeier. Each 500-page hardcover volume is the complete narrative of the tale, articulated with over 300 chants, and enhanced with an afterword, commentary and multiple indexes in the language of each text.

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