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Author:

Dean, Debra Kang, 1955-

Title:

News of home : poems / by Debra Kang Dean ; foreword by Colette Inez.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

BOA Editions,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

95 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Part Four : Catch and release -- Weep line. Inside my house -- Aloha, Aina -- Hollow -- Proteus -- Heal-all: in memory of Kana Nakama -- Immigrants -- Part Two : The corsage -- Obake -- Marginalia: Honolulu, 1970 -- Spheres of influence -- With my mother and aunts in the kitchen -- Calling from the gate -- New Year's Eve -- Back to back -- Corsage -- Courage, temperance, and wisdom -- Island fever -- In the way back -- Part Three : Homing pidgin -- Bruises -- Smoke -- In my father's house -- Pineapples -- Wild Horse Island -- Homing pidgin -- No pilikia; or, piece of cake -- Hawaiian time -- Taproot -- Syllabus -- Part Four : Catch and release -- Fishing the sky -- Becoming one of the guys -- Distance -- Catch and release -- World enough -- On the eve of my thirty-fifth birthday -- Prothalamion: of my brother in Los Angeles -- Fidelity -- Blue apartments -- Because I could not go home for my aunt's funeral -- Weep line.

Series:

The A. Poulin, Jr. new poets of America series ; vol. 19

ISBN:

9781880238660
1880238667

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40251064

LCCN:

98072186

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)