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Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Edited by Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum. This issue contains works by Nora Okja Keller, Juliet S. Kono, Cathy Song, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Kimo Armitage, Johanna Calma, Margo Berdeshevsky, Mavis Hara, Darlene M. Javar, Nolan W. K. Kim, Jeanne Kawelolani Kinney, Don Lee, Jennifer Lighty, Robin Lim, Wing Tek Lum, Noel Abubo Mateo, Georgia McMillan, and Michael McPherson. Also includes artwork by Michael Nobu Harada and Jon Hamblin. Perfectbound.
This latest journal from Hawaii's oldest and longest running literary small press celebrates the centennial of Filipino immigration to Hawai'i with cover art and portfolio by Romolo Valencia and work by ten Filipino-American writers, including R. Zamora Linmark and Eileen R. Tabios. Also featured are new works by Juliet S. Kono, Wing Tek Lum, Michael McPheson, Joseph Stanton, and John Wythe White.
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The deeply personal, interconnected short stories follow highlights in a family history from Korean immigrant grandparents toiling in rural Hawai'i, through a young Asian-American couple's post-World War II life on the mainland and their daughters growing up in Honolulu in the 1960s, to travels in New Zealand and India in the twenty-first century. "With lyric grace and the luminosity that is a distinct signature of her poetry, Cathy Song has created a rich tapestry of powerful stories and vividly drawn characters that can be read both sequentially as...
Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to "Asia" and "Pacific" as well as to "American mainland"
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"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of creating a new western myth." The editors of the Literary History of the American West (TCU Press, 1987) hoped that the first volume would begin, not conclude, their exploration of the West's literary heritage. Out of this hope comes Updating the Literary West, a comprehensive reference anthology including essays by over one hundred scholars. A selected bibliography is included with each piece. In the ten years since publication of LHAW, western writing has developed a significantly larger presence in the national literary ...