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Author Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951-
Title Coral road : poems / Garrett Hongo.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
©2011
Open Library Cover
Location Call No. Status
 Whitridge Room - Chase Poetry Collection  Chase 821 H    IN LIBRARY
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 102 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents I. Coral Road. The festival of San Giovanni -- Coral Road -- Waimea-of-the-dead -- Pupukea shell -- Cane fire -- A child's ark -- II. The wartime letters of Hideo Kubota. Kubota to Miguel Hernández in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 -- Kubota to Nâzim Hikmet in Peredelkino, Moscow, from Leupp, Arizona -- Kubota writes to José Arcadio Buendía -- Kubota to the Chinese poets detained on Angel Island -- Kubota returns to the middle of life -- Kubota meets Pablo Neruda on the street -- Kubota on Kahuku Point to Maximus in Gloucester -- III. The art of Fresco. Prologue ; 1. The expulsion ; 2. Bathhouse, Haùula Beach Park ; 3. Tabula ; 4. Noli me tangere ; 5. Verdaccio for the dead ; 6. Cane fires ; 7. Baptism ; 8. The apse of apprenticeship ; 9. Roofscape ; 10. Preliminary studies ; 11. In memoriam ; 12. Giornata ; 13. Moana ; 14. Yeux glauques ; 15. Soul's leap -- IV. A map of Kahuku in Oregon. Kawela studies -- Bugle boys -- Chikin Hekka -- Holiday in Honolulu -- 55 -- A map of Kahuku in Oregon -- V. Elegy. Elegy, Kahuku.
Local Note NYSL copy the gift of Lyn Chase. Includes review copy notice from Knopf.
Subject American poetry -- 21st century.
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
Japanese American poetry.
Added Author Chase, Lyn, donor, former owner. ZNS
Lyn Chase Poetry Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
ISBN 9780307594761
0307594769
Standard No. 99945400461