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03327aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 50598D14C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 170504t20172017miu 000 e eng d 020 $a 9780472037025 020 $a 0472037021 035 $a (OCoLC)985887152 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d EYM $d ZLM $d AMH $d KSU $d OCLCF $d ZYU $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us-hi 050 4 $a PS3558 O48 A6 2017x 082 04 $a 814/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, $d 1951- $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 14 $a The mirror diary : $b selected essays / $c Garrett Hongo. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor, MI : $b University of Michigan Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 210 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Poets on poetry. 505 0 $a The mirror diary -- In the bamboo grove: some notes on the poetic line -- Sea and scholarship: confessional narrative in Charles Olson's "Maximus, to himself" -- On Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass -- The academy reading series featured poet: R. S. Thomas -- From "A poet's notebook" -- The activity of the poet -- Ministry: homage to KiÌlauea -- A man on child's swing: contemporary Japanese poetry -- Review of Turning Japanese: memoirs of a sansei by David Mura -- Homage to lost worlds: where I write, why I write there -- Working for the DWP -- In the Charles Wright Museum -- Introduction to Under western eyes: culture wars in Asian America -- Gardens we have left -- HR 442: redress -- Hope alive: writers at the unconvention -- Lost in place: longing for the brave new world of L.A. -- America singing: an address to the newly arrived peoples. 520 $a "The Mirror Diary tracks the emergence of an original poetic voice and a learned consciousness amid multiple and sometimes competing influences of complex literary traditions and regional and ethnic histories. Beginning with a literary inquiry into the history of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i and California, Garrett Hongo draws on his own history to consider the mosaic of American identities--personal, cultural, and poetic--in the context of a postmodern diaspora. Hongo's essays attest to the breadth of what he considers his cultural inheritance and literary antecedents, ranging from the poets of China's T'ang Dynasty to American poets such as Walt Whitman and Charles Olson. He explains free-verse prosody by way of John Coltrane's jazz; praises his contemporaries, poets David Mura, Edward Hirsch, and Mark Jarman; and acknowledges his mentors, Bert Meyers and Charles Wright. In other pieces he engages with controversies and contestations in contemporary Asian American literature, confronts the politics of race and the legacy of Japanese American internment during World War II, offers paeans to the Hawaiian landscape, and addresses immigrants newly arrived in America with a warm welcome. The Mirror Diary is the work of a poet fully engaged with contemporary politics and poetics and committed to the study and celebration of diverse traditions." -- Publisher's description 650 0 $a Poets, American $z Hawaii $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Japanese Americans $z Hawaii $x History. 830 0 $a Poets on poetry. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107014419.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50598D14C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search