Ashore / Laurel Nakanishi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakanishi, Laurel, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Tupelo Press First / Second Book Award (Series)

Tupelo Press First / Second Book Award : The Berkshire Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--Ethnic identity--Poetry.

Asians.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Poetry.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Alienation (Philosophy)--Poetry.

Alienation (Philosophy).

Asians--Ethnic identity.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

95 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I

Invoking the Bodhisattvas' Names in Honolulu

Manoa

War Games

My Brother, in Eight Panels

Driving to the North Shore, I Imagine my Brother

The Pacific Nalakah

Waimea Valley I

The Shark

II

Mixed

Ode for my Montana Grandmother

Bitterroots

Catalog

The Sun Moving Across This Particular Earth

Living Away

Hills Above the Rattlesnake

Afterwards, a Wish

III

Given

Three Views of O'ahu

Waimea Valley II

Place(less)ness

Waikiki Diptych

Elegy with Whale Song

Waimea Valley III

Pacific Trash Vortex

Kolea, Pacific Golden Plover

Waimea Valley IV

Portrait of my Brother as a Bulwer's Petrel

A Homecoming

Mahalo a nui

IV

V.

Notes:

"Poems"--cover.

"Winner of the Berkshire Prize for a 1st or 2nd Book of Poetry"--back cover.

With a prefatory note by contest judge Carl Phillips.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781946482518

194648251X

OCLC:

1247837751

Publisher Number:

99988705554