Poetry. Asian Studies. "Kanae's first book, SISTA TONGUE, is about her first love: language. It's a brief social history of Pidgin English in Hawaii intertwined with a personal story about a little brother who was a late talker and was stigmatized for it. Within its pages, Kanae has created what she calls a collage of poetry and prose, layered and patchworked in a way as to entice-and require-the reader's careful attention, especially as presented by graphic designer Kristin Kaelinani Gonzales"-Wanda A. Adams, Gannett News Service. Kanae's work can be found in BAMBOO RIDGE, HYBOLICS, and TINFISH. She is currently an English lecturer at Kapiolani Community College and serves as an editorial assistant for OIWI: A NATIVE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Sista Tongue

Literature & Fiction

Kanae, Lisa Linn

Poetry

Tinfish Press

Deborah Meadows reads through Herman Melville's masterpiece, riffing off its concerns, but rendering them in utterly contemporary terms. Her questions, like Melville's, are both physical and metaphysical: "What and where is the mind? / Inscribed upon, see through / a brittle clarity, read through spectacles / that make a skin / over skin." Meadows teaches at Cal-Poly Pomona and is the author of forthcoming books of poems from Green Integer and Krupskaya.

The 6O's and 70's: From "The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick"

Meadows, Deborah

Literary Nonficion. Essays. Asian-American Studies. Second Edition. A collection of talks and concrete poems by Hawaii's "pidgin guerrilla," Lee Tonouchi. Included in the book are such essays as "Da State of Pidgin Address" and "That Pidgin Th-ang," which combine insight about Hawaiian Creole English (usually referred to as "pidgin") with Tonouchi's usual verve and wit. A must-buy for anyone interested in Hawai`i, in language, in multicultural America.

Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Tonouchi, Lee A.

Social Sciences

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Freely translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan. Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems -- at times witty, at other moments despairing -- chronicle Ho's prison life. "The flesh may be in prison / But the mind still has free rein"-from "Preamble."

Poems from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh

Minh, Ho Chi

Poetry. Asian American. A gorgeous chapbook of translations made by the renowned poet and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, CARVED WATER is the fifth book in English by acclaimed author Zhang Er.

Carved Water

Er, Zhang

Poetry. "In this brilliant collection of paragrammatic and punning lyric, Huang shows himself to be a unique master of the language game. His sensitivity to word, syllable, and letter is that of a poet for whom English, first acquired secretly as a second language by a teenager in Beijing, has become a site of wonder and amazement"--Marjorie Perloff. "Quicksilver mentations, instant revisions, and Cecil Taylor riffs are warbled around the page in contrapuntal ecstasies by which documentary histories of immigration, imitation, and translation are tuned. Huang's is a canny ad lib, the very thing you want to sing to the babe you bring to your crib"--Forrest Gander.

Cribs

Huang, Yunte

Poetry. Imitative, a string of vocables made for city traffic, a coat, a liturgy of walking with crowds, a sentence opens with familiar weight as if naming television examples of bathos can save portent from the problem of induction. A scholar's flight pattern was called in, the commercial pilot received approval set off.

Growing Still

Poetry. Sherman Souther first came to Hawaii in 1972 as a Stanford surgical resident. Six months later, he returned to the mainland, but with a persistent desire to live in the Hawaiian Islands. After retiring from plastic surgery practice in California, he earned an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and now makes his home in Kapa'a, Kauai. For Immediate Release, xStream, Puppyflowers, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Many Mountains Moving, and Tinfish contain recent work.

Surgical 'Bru-Ez

Souther, Sherman

Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino American literary publication Maganda. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF) in 2003.

Poeta En San Francisco

Reyes, Barbara Jane

Poetry. Asian American Studies. COMPOSITE. DIPLOMACY. is written in the form believed to be the oldest of the main forms of poetry in the Thai language, a form called KHLOONG SII SUPHAAB. Padcha Tuntha-obas is a native of Bangkok, Thailand. After spending 6 years in the United States as a student of Philosophy and Creative Writing, she began publishing her creative work in CHAIN. COMPOSITE. DIPLMACY. is her first solo published work. She lives in Bangkok, Thailand.

Composite. Diplomacy.

Tuntha-Obas, Padcha

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