Bamboo Ridge Press
Bamboo Ridge Press is a non-profit literary small press founded in 1978 to foster the appreciation, understanding and creation of literary, visual or performing arts by, for or about Hawaii's people. Publisher of books, audio recordings, and Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts.
P.O. Box 61781
Honolulu, HI 96839-1781
Telephone/Fax: (808) 626-1481
Please visit our website at bambooridge.com or email: brinfo@bambooridge.com for more information.
Aloha Shorts is a locally produced radio program of writings from Bamboo Ridge Press performed by Hawai‘i’s actors. The shows tape before a live audience on the first Sunday of every month and are broadcast every Tuesday at 6:30pm on Hawai‘i Public Radio’s KIPO 89.3 FM. These tapings and broadcasts are supported in part by the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities.
Visit hawaiipublicradio.org for more information. Now podcasting at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AlohaShorts. Subscribe to podcasts here.
The co-producers of the Aloha Shorts program are Sammie Choy, Craig Howes, and Phyllis Look. The on-air host is Cedric Yamanaka. Providing two sessions of live music is the house band, Hamajang.
Upcoming Releases
New Releases
No Choice but to Follow Latest Special Issue
In the Company of Strangers
Bamboo Ridge Issue 94 Latest Regular Issue
Islands Linked By Ocean
Morningside Heights
Saturday Night at Pahala Theatre Re-released
People’s Choice
An Offering of Rice
The Seven Orchids
Folks You Meet in Longs
Our Heritage
Kauai Tales
Polihale and Other Kaua'i Legends
More Kaua‘i Tales
Pele Ma: Legends of Pele From Kaua'i
He Leo Hou
Ho‘i Ho‘i Hou
O Na Holoholona Wawae Eha O Ka Lama Hawaii
Bamboo Ridge Issue 89
YOBO: Korean American Writing in Hawai'i
Chan Is Missing
Fiction
Ho‘olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile
Pass On, No Pass Back!
Da Word
Bananaheart and Other Stories
The Watcher of Waipuna
Guilt Payment
Poetry
OUTSPEAKS A RHAPSODY
Expounding the Doubtful Points
Hilo Rains
Tsunami Years
Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology
Last Days Here
The Best
Growing Up Local
The Best of Bamboo Ridge
The Best of HONOLULU Fiction
Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women
Back Issues
Bamboo Ridge Issue 91: 30th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 84: 25th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 75
Bamboo Ridge Issue 73: 20th Anniversary Issue
Ho'olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile
September 21st, 2009
Here comes a tsunami of unforgettable fiction, told by a writer whose life in Hawai'i encompasses the sweep of generations of immigrant history and the vitality of lives caught in waves of overwhelming change. An exquisite gift to readers.
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Chan Is Missing
September 20th, 2009
This screenplay of Wayne Wang's widely acclaimed first film includes an English translation of scenes spoken in Chinese, as well as a Chinese character text of those scenes.
Chan is Missing broke ground with mainstream audiences with its realistic portrayals of Chinese characters in San Francisco's Chinatown, replacing stereotypic stock Asian characters found in previous films from the western world. This volume includes an interview with Wang and an introduction and screen notes by Diane Mark.
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Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology
September 20th, 2009
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 these five-line verses, published along with kanji and romanji versions.
This is a most excruciating and convincing portrait of war painted by ordinary people in poetry, beggin [...]
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OUTSPEAKS A RHAPSODY
September 20th, 2009
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 author of Trip Trap with Jack Kerouac and Lew Welch, and The Backpacker.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti says, "Albert Saijo has the great vision most poets and painters never had."
Of Outspeaks A Rhapsody, Saijo's first collection o [...]
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The Watcher of Waipuna
September 20th, 2009
Gary Pak’s first short story collection creates a world both familiar and strange. The voice of Pak’s fictional community, Kanewai, is immediately resonant to contemporary Hawai‘i readers. Yet, his stories recall worlds rich in legend, mythology and, at times, the fantastic. They are stories that tell of the struggles of a colonized community and the enduring spirit of Hawaii’s people.
Gary Pak is "a hypnotic storyteller whose writing evokes a wondrous, palpable sense of place, unmi [...]
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O Na Holoholona Wawae Eha O Ka Lama Hawaii
September 20th, 2009
Originally published as a reader by Lahainaluna Press in 1834, this collection of four-footed animal descriptions features Hawaiian and English text. Each sketch is accompanied by a reproduction of an original woodblock print.
A sort of picture-zoo for young Hawai'i students who had never seen most of the animals presented in the book, it functioned as both a language text and a nature book. The text provides literal English translations of the Hawaiian tex [...]
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Pele Ma: Legends of Pele From Kaua'i
September 20th, 2009
Fourth in Wichman’s series of Kaua‘i tales, Pele Ma is a collection of stories that tell of the life and exploits of Pele, Kamapua‘a, Hi‘iaka, Lohi‘au, and their companions. Although Pele is always associated with the Big Island, these retellings remind us that the Pele legends have a strong link to the island of Kaua‘i.
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Polihale and Other Kaua'i Legends
September 20th, 2009
This is Frederick Wichman's second collection of legends from the island of Kaua'i. The volume is rich in Hawaiian mythology and storytelling tradition and is accompanied by fine pen and ink drawings by Christine Faye.
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Kauai Tales
September 20th, 2009
This 18-story collection is rich in legend and early Kaua'i history. Frederick B. Wichman has gathered these stories from many sources: some written down and some told to the author by Jacob Maka of Ha'ena in the oldest tradition of storytellying--word of mouth.
Many of the stories help explain local phenomena, such as the reason for Waimea river sometimes flowing red, or why the Mana beaches are dangerous for swimmers. The collection features pen and ink illustrations by Christine Faye and includes a Hawaiian [...]
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He Leo Hou: A New Voice--Hawaiian Playwrights
September 20th, 2009
This book is the first collection of plays by Hawaiian playwrights and features the work of Alani Apio, Tammy Haili'opua Baker, Lee Cataluna, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.
"A must-have for teachers and followers of Hawai‘i literature and politics, He Leo Hou opens up for discussion many of the controversial issues absent from nonnative literature."
Local Color - Honolulu Weekly
"Anyone with some time to spare should consider this book. The playwrights are part Hawaiian, but the plays are not [...]
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YOBO: Korean American Writing in Hawai'i
September 20th, 2009
From the earliest of plantation experiences to modern life and culture in the 50th state, topics explored by the writers chronicle the Korean experience in Hawai'i and on the mainland through evocative essays, poetry, and prose.
"The word yobo still brings that pinch of pain, conjuring up old injuries...we forgot that yobo is a term of endearment, born of love both passionate and spiritual. We offer these stories‹yours and mine, historical and personal, communal and familial. Yobo, reclaimed, survives anger and shame, tra [...]
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Guilt Payment
September 19th, 2009
This 13-story collection is centered around the Korean War and the post-war life of immigrants in America. Often graphic with meticulous attention do detail, the stories are adventure tales as well as ironic commentary.
This first collection of stories by a Korean-American reveals "...the unflinching confrontation with the voids and wounds, both psychic and physical, that both drive and inhibit a generation of Koreans born to division, war and a homeland that is not whole." --Koreatown
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More Kaua'i Tales
September 16th, 2009
On Frederick Wichman's third collection of Kaua'i legends, esteemed Hawaiian editor and translator, Esther T. Mookini writes, "I was delighted with Kaua'i Tales in 1985 and then charmed by Polihale and Other Kaua'i Legends in 1991. Now, with More Kaua'i Tales, I am again entertained with more of Frederick Bruce Wichman's enchanting retelling of tales of the island he knows so very well. Bruce's familiarity with Hawaiian words beckons the reader into his place with great hospitality. He knows the meaning of aloha [...]
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Ho‘i Ho‘i Hou: A Tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell
September 16th, 2009
This collection of photographs, poems, articles, song lyrics, and artwork pay tribute to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell, the two Hawaiian activists who disappeared off the waters of Kaho'olawe in 1977.
In the years since that time, George Helm’s very name has come to symbolize the Hawaiian Renaissance Movement, a spirit that lives on in his music and his vision. Part historical record, part celebration of that vision, Ho'i Ho'i Hou (giving back, returning, restoring, restitution) includes biographical sketches [...]
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Bananaheart and Other Stories
September 16th, 2009
In this her first collection of short stories, Marie Hara shares both new and previously published works that explore her characters’ complex connections to the past.
Spanning nearly 100 years of the experiences of Japanese women in Hawai‘i, these stories introduce a picture bride, a plantation worker, a domestic servant, a hapa-haole girl growing up in post-war Makiki as well as these women’s successful but often troubled middle-class descendants.
Hara explores how race, class, sexua [...]
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