“Who You?” For Japanese Americans of Hawaii, it is all about the Issei. On the journey to find identity they do not walk alone. The Issei walk with them. They will not lose their way. These stories that honor the Issei are shared by George R. Ariyoshi, former Governor of Hawaii; Fujio Matsuda, former President, University of Hawaii; Sparky Matsunaga, late Senator of Hawaii; Masaji Marumoto, late Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii; Fumiko Kaya, late founder, Goto of Hiroshima Foundation; and Patsy Sumie Saiki, late author and educator.

Who You? Hawaii Issei

Biographies & Memoirs

Kitano, Christine

Ogawa, Dennis M.

Community & Culture

Japanese Cultural Center

A third generation Japanese American, Kitano writes with an eerie, clarified composure of her family's struggles--immigration, culture shock, internment--and of her own private struggle to understand them and herself. Her confident, beautifully crafted poems are suggestive of a mature poet at the top of her form; but, amazingly, this is her first book.

Birds of Paradise: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Lynx House Press

Dumb Luck & other poems

Texas Review Press

Finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger―an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family―her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII―Kitano's ambitious poetry speaks for those who have been historically silenced and displaced.
Christine Kitano's first collection of poetry, Birds of Paradise, was published by Lynx House Press. She lives in Ithaca, NY, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature at Ithaca College.

Sky Country (American Poets Continuum)

BOA Editions, Ltd.

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