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The kitchen of small hours : poems / by Derek N. Otsuji.
Van Pelt Library PS3615.T87 K58 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otsuji, Derek N., 1969- author.
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry
- Crab Orchard series in poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawaii--Poetry.
- Hawaii.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 75 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review ; Southern Illinois University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "These poems gather five generations of family stories about an immigrant experience that emerged from the plantation economies of mid-nineteenth-century Hawaii"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Lahaina Obaban Teaches Her Great-Granddaughters about Business and Life
- The Kitchen of Small Hours
- A Modern Fairy Tale
- Music
- The Road to Kanzaki: A Story about the War as Told by My Aunt Keiko
- Sadako
- Death Comes to a Cousin in the Air
- The Splendor of Laundry
- Urn
- Lament for My Father's Sister Whom He Lost in Childhood
- Shrine
- How She Loves Music
- A Brittle Sprig
- Even the Airborne among Us
- Redeeming the Cans
- Last Walk
- My Mother Revisits Mahelona Hospital, Where Her Mother Had Been Quarantined Fifty Years Ago
- Lost
- An Offering with Some Embarrassment and Apologies
- Returning to My Grandmother's Backyard Orchard the Day after Her Death
- How to Sell Your Grandmother's House without Remorse
- The Rabbit in the Moon
- Three Boys One Fish Two Eyes
- Among the More Innocent Touristic Amusements of the Old Waikiki
- Bachi Tales
- Upon Hearing the Old Advertiser Building May Have to Make Way for New Apartments
- Getting the Melons to Market
- Eden
- Evening Visit
- Theater of Shadows
- A Visit to the Hongwanji Temple on the Anniversary of Our Grandfather's Death
- Least Said
- The Old Flamingo Restaurant
- The Afternoon We Gathered around a Box of Old Letters and Family Photographs Retrieved from the Dust of Oblivion
- Comfort Food
- The Reinvention of the American Dream
- Nostalgia and Memory
- A Japanese-American Recalls Pearl Harbor Day When He and His Teammates Headed to a Football Game in Town Were Fired On by a Zero Pilot
- Apprenticeship
- Upon First Seeing, Housed at the Bishop Museum, the Kessho Mawashi Belonging to My Grandfather, Skinny Sumo Wrestler
- Plantation Town
- Parable of the Cedars
- A Marriage in Three Quatrains
- Industry
- The Ditch Kids of the Maui Sugar Company
- The Cane Cutter's Song
- My Father's Songs
- Paternal Pedagogy
- Uncles Talking Story on the Porch
- On the Recent State of Our Local Economy
- At the Halfway House
- Mochitsuki 2009
- Last Meal
- First Dream.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Otsuji, Derek N., 1969- Kitchen of small hours
- ISBN:
- 9780809338405
- 0809338408
- OCLC:
- 1226852596
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