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The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noguchi, Rick
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For the young Kenji Takezo, the innocent surfer who inhabits this collection of poems, balance becomes more than just trying to stand on a wave. It is a way of surviving in a world as precarious as the ocean, a world constantly turning on itself.
- Contents:
- When for Weeks the Sea Is Flat
- The Turn of Privacy
- Hunting of Grunion
- Craving the Taste of Ocean
- The Breath He Holds
- The Brother, Joe Takezo, an Amateur Bodybuilder Who Tries to Surf, Sometimes
- Holes from Somewhere
- El Toro del Mar
- After Kenji Takezo Loses His Trunks His Appetite Is Met, Almost
- The Second Oldest Balancing Butsumyo Retired from the Circus, Age Twenty-three
- I, the Neighbor Mr. Uskovich, Watch Every Morning Kenji Takezo Hold His Breath
- The Explosion at the Power Plant Was Not a Supernova
- The Madonna
- His the Ocean
- The Really Long Ride
- His First Big Surf
- After Kenji Takezo's Worst Wipeout He Takes Home with Him Some Ocean
- The Sweetest Oranges in Town
- Two Words That Mean Nothing and Everything
- The Breath-Holding Contest
- Kenji Takezo Learns to Keep His Mouth Closed
- The Shirt His Father Wore That Day Was Wrinkled, Slightly
- Black with Red Spots
- Not Surfing Some Days
- From Rooftops, Kenji Takezo Throws Himself
- June 22nd
- The Winter Skin He Wears
- The Ocean Inside Him
- The Classmate Who Saw Kenji Takezo Riding a Bus
- The Witch of Miyajima That the First Squad Encountered, Circa 1470
- The Widow Who Was Slaughtered
- Lost Under the Ocean After Falling Off a Wave
- The Room He Cannot Keep
- His Wave
- The Kite a Man Made
- Kenji Takezo Becomes Water
- Autumn Heat
- Orchards
- His Brother Surfing
- His First Dance
- October, Remembering the Ride No One Saw
- Paradise: Resting Off Highway 5
- Kenji Takezo the Surfer Who Can Dance, Too
- The Old-Timer Who Told Himself Away
- Kenji Takezo Fights Back
- He Knows Not Every Ride Is Perfect.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780822979968
- 0822979969
- OCLC:
- 606033385
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