Bamboo ridge. no. 118 : journal of Hawai'i literature and arts / Bamboo Ridge Press.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kono, Juliet S., 1943- editor.

Toyama, Jean Yamasaki, 1942- editor.

Series:

Bamboo ridge ; 118.

Bamboo Ridge ; No. 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Hawaii--Asian American authors.

American poetry.

American fiction--Hawaii--Asian American authors.

American fiction.

Asian Americans--Hawaii--Fiction.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Hawaii--Poetry.

Manners and customs.

Asian American authors.

Hawaii--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Hawaii.

Hawaii--Social life and customs--Poetry.

American fiction--Asian American authors.

American poetry--Asian American authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawai'i : Bamboo Ridge Press, [2020]

Summary:

This is the latest issue (#118) of BAMBOO RIDGE, JOURNAL OF HAWAI'I LITERATURE AND ARTS. Guest edited by Juliet S. Kono and Jean Yamasaki Toyama, it features cover artwork by Jui-Lien Sanderson, as well as a tribute to authors Marie Hara and Joe Tsujimoto, with recent work by both. This anthology of poetry and prose has 68 contributing writers and includes new work by Sue Cowing, Tom Gammarino, Jennifer Hasegawa, Scott Kikkawa, Brenda Kwon, Kapena M. Landgraf, Darrell H. Y. Lum, Susan Miho Nunes, Kathy J. Phillips, Mia Sara, John E. Simonds, Cathy Song, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka.

Contents:

Joe Tsujimoto p. 11 / Marion Lyman-Mersereau

Reading by Window Light, February 14 p. 14 / Joe Tsujimoto

Marie Hara p. 15 / Wing Tek Lum

Reflections on Marie, shared at her memorial p. 17 / Nora Okja Keller

When I Am a Ghost p. 18 / Marie Hara

Editors' Choice Awards

Poetry / Christy Passion

A Letter to My Father p. 20

Fires p. 21

It's My Fault p. 22

A Kind of Sacrament p. 23

Storyteller p. 24

Rorschach Test (upon viewing a photo of a vine) p. 25

Prose / Michael Puleloa

Man Underwater p. 26

New to Bamboo Ridge / Cavan Reed Scanlan

Custard p. 37

(h)improvi(d)sing p. 42

Kukui Gardens p. 44

Speaking in Tongues p. 46

Artist Profile and Portfolio / Jui-Lien Sanderson

Floating in the Ocean p. 49 / Jean Yamasaki Toyama

Ahupua'a p. 59 / Dana Anderson

Namings p. 60 / Sally-Jo Keala-o-Anuenue Bowman

Make the Night Sleep p. 62 / Carol Catanzariti

Winter p. 63 / Jacey Choy

What You Won't Remember p. 64

Hidden History p. 65 / Brian Chun-Ming

We Sat Quietly p. 66

Ice p. 67 / April Melia Coloretti

Fruit Brothers Aria p. 67 / Earl Cooper

Our Plumeria p. 69 / Sue Cowing

Time in Cahokia, A Circle of Cedar p. 69

The Tao of Forgetting p. 70

Allspice p. 71

Hiking Above Kahana Bay p. 72 / Brian Cronwall

The Art of Kintsugi p. 74 / Diane DeCillis

The Nightmare p. 76 / Kathleen DeSaye

The Ocean Is Medicine p. 84 / Elena Savaiinaea Farden

Futures Studies p. 85 / Tom Gammarino

Magnitude p. 97 / Caroline A. Garrett

A Free Life p. 98 / Bora Hah

Hawaiian Hall, Bishop Museum, Honolulu p. 103 / William Hanson

Draft Board Number 2, Downtown Honolulu, Anno 1971 p. 104

Temple of Pu'ukohola p. 105

Goethe in Honoka'a p. 106 / Jeffrey Hantover

A Fish Story p. 107 / Mavis Hara

At Keahualaka p. 112 / Gail N. Harada

Gaman Trilogy p. 113

Tinnitus p. 119 / Joseph Hardy

Ode to Pepe'ekeo Mill Camp p. 121 / Jennifer Hasegawa

Two-Minute Memoir p. 122

Famolare p. 124 / Ann Inoshita

Stickers and Happy Face Stamp p. 124

Waipahu Rain p. 126

Excerpt from Red Dirt p. 127 / Scott Kikkawa

Pacific p. 139 / Maya Kikuchi

Refuge p. 140 / Brenda Kwon

Maka p. 142 / Kapena M. Landgraf

False Wiliwili p. 143 / Lanning C. Lee

Autocorrect p. 155 / Lenny Levine

Women's Work p. 161 / Virginia Loo

The Argument p. 164

Pavarti Picks Her Battles p. 165

What Goes Around p. 166

Comfort Chicken p. 168 / Darrell H. Y. Lum

Death p. 169 / A'ala Lyman

Fear p. 169

Grief p. 170

Lei Conservation p. 171 / Marion Lyman-Mersereau

For a Good While p. 172

Just Clouds p. 173

Obscuring p. 175 / Jennifer Santos Madriaga

Banished/Vanished p. 176

Epitaph p. 177 / Marcia Zina Mager

Entrance p. 178

Hamakua Coast p. 179 / Carrie Frances Martin

1967 p. 181 / Rick McKenzie

The Wretch of Makakilo: On Family p. 182 / Tyler Miranda

The Wretch of Makakilo: On Diversity p. 183

Flip the Bird p. 185

Ka'ena p. 187 / Tamara Leiokanoe Moan

Shenandoah p. 189 / Dawn Morais

The Walking Lady p. 191 / Susan Miho Nunes

Najuma p. 204 / Claire Oasa

Wild Pigs at Night p. 209

Walk Always p. 210

A Pair of White Terns p. 212 / Derek N. Otsuji

By Lantern Light p. 214 / Kathy J. Phillips

Kid Ross p. 216 / Anthony Russo

Vocabulary p. 224 / Mia Sara

The Channel at Ma'alaea p. 225 / Stuart Jay Silverman

Crossing The Caldera p. 226

The Looking Glass p. 228 / John E. Simonds

The Short Sweet Flight p. 230 / Cathy Song

The Tree of Life p. 232

The Weight of Departure p. 234 / Eric Stinton

Six Ways of Catching Fish in China p. 238 / Shelley Stocksdale

Kumon p. 239 / Coralyn Sunico

Rice Street Haibun p. 241 / Samantha Tetangco

Portrait of a Filipina on Her 37th Birthday p. 242

Day Before Obon p. 243 / Delaina Thomas

Pianissimo Finale p. 247 / Ken Tokuno

Cross Words p. 257 / Julie Ushio

Little Tokyo Haiku, 2019 p. 264 / Amy Uyematsu

Dazzling p. 265

The Passage p. 266 / J. Fumiko Wong

Cat Hater, Cat Lover p. 268 / Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Bamboo Shoots

Memories of Home p. 271 / Doreen E. Beyer

Newell's Shearwater p. 272

Whisper p. 273

Midwest Aloha p. 274 / Lanning C. Lee

Kaloa Pau: Notes From a Fisherman's Diary p. 275 / Vanessa Lee-Miller

Boy and Uncle: Valentine's Day p. 276 / Darrell H. Y. Lum

Silence p. 276

Afterword - A Bamboo Ridge Press Legacy

Preserving Bamboo Ridge p. 277 / Wing Tek Lum.

ISBN:

9781943756049

194375604X

OCLC:

1263703176

Publisher Number:

99987065317