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This landmark collection is the first fiction and drama collection by a local Chinese writer.

Fiction. A young woman tries to rebuild her life after moving away from Waikiki and the excesses of a self-destructive lifestyle with her drug-dealing boyfriend. She moves temporarily to her father's Molokai beach home, a ramshackle old house complete with an overgrown orchid hothouse and an ancient koa canoe. There she uncovers the remnants of a tragic love storywhich inspires a ragtag team of paddlers to take on the channel race and in so do...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. In her first collection of poetry, Juliet S. Kono shares her family's immigrant past and captures in poetic memory a time and place. Rich in detail, the work spans two generations and examines the daily events of life on the sugar plantation and growing up Japanese American in Hawai'i on the Big Island. Kono's sharp observational skills and lyrical voice paint a picture that resonates with both the tenderness an...

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawaiian Studies. STILL OUT OF PLACE, poems by Christy Passion, is a powerful collection that explores a life lived in Hawai'i, rich with cultural heritage that few others have really captured. Tough and unflinching, compassionate and beautifully crafted, this is a sharp-eyed, singular portrait of island life. It's working class. It resists nostalgia. It shows that there can be a beauty in the everyday p...

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. BAMBOO RIDGE NO. 113 is the 40th Anniversary Issue from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawai'i. Edited by Gail N. Harada, author of BEYOND GREEN TEA AND GRAPEFRUIT (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2013) and Lisa Linn Kanae, author of SISTAH TONGUE (Tinfish Press, 2003) and ISLANDS LINKED BY OCEAN (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2009), the milestone anthol...

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. This is the latest anthology from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawai'i, guest edited by Gail N. Harada, author of BEYOND GREEN TEA AND GRAPEFRUIT, and Lisa Linn Kanae, author of ISLANDS LINKED BY OCEAN. Featuring cover and interior art by Joy Enomoto and new work by Sally-Jo Keala-o- Ānuenue Bowman, Amalia B. Bueno, Donald Carreir...

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 J...

Special issue of Bamboo ridge, the Hawaii writers' quarterly, no. 22, Spring 1984"--T.p. verso.

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Here comes a tsunami of unforgettable fiction, told by a writer whose life in Hawaii encompasses the sweep of generations of immigrant history and the vitality of lives caught in waves of overwhelming change. An exquisite gift to readers. Juliet S. Kono is the author of HILO RAINS and TSUNAMI YEARS and the editor of SISTER STEW: POETRY AND FICTION BY WOMEN, also available from SPD.

Fiction. "This long awaited book of stories from Mavis Hara is everything we hoped for-and more. Gritty and tough-minded, lyrical by turns, this is no mere nostalgic feel-good journey to the plantation past. There is here a wealth of fine observation, a nuance and precision of detail-the naming of telling human gestures that go unnamed except for the poet and storyteller's art"--Sylvia Watanabe. "AN OFFERING OF RICE is written with a careful n...

Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. An episodic novel set in contemporary Hawai'i about three brothers struggling to negotiate their identities in the wake of cultural loss, drug addiction, and family tragedy. Personal conflict leads Kā'eo Teixeira to question choices made while exploring his cultural heritage. He abandons those he cares for, pursues his own path, is ultimately left guilt stricken and alone, in the compa...

Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies. This special issue of Bamboo Ridge (No. 82) is guest edited by Nora Okja Keller (Comfort Woman, Fox Girl), Brenda Kwon, Sun Namkung, Gary Pak (The Watcher of Waipuna, The Ricepaper Airplane), and Cathy Song (Picture Bride, The Land of Bliss). Contributors include HONOLULU Magazine editor-at-large David K. Choo, Ploughshares editor Don Lee (Yellow), Chris McKinney (The Tattoo, The Queen...

Fiction. From the author of SISTA TONGUE come stories written with humor and compassion that give voice to characters who find themselves at crossroad moments where past informs present, young teach old, and love can mean holding on or letting go. In "The Steersman, " a novice paddler shares her tempestuous yet life-affirming introduction to the tradition of outrigger canoe paddling: ..". in the canoe, we were nameless. We were numbers, and wh...

Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. THE SUM OF BREATHING, a collection of stories, poems, memoir, and spoken word, trenchantly explores the inheritances of memory, loss, feminism, racism, and place. The collection explores life, family, and love as a Korean American with a keen eye for detail and with elegant, restrained language that reads like classical music.

Magazine. Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. The latest issue of BAMBOO RIDGE opens the Editors' Choice Awards winners--Tamara Leiokanoe Moan for poetry, Mary Lombard for prose, and Emil DeAndreis for new BR writer--followed by a special section, "War! What Is It Good For?" Featured in this section are Gail N. Harada, WWII veteran Don Matsuda, and Wing Tek Lum's series of poems on the Nanjing Massacre, accompanied by artwork by cover a...

Fiction. 'EWA WHICH WAY is a coming-of-age novel set in the early 1980s, around the time of Hurricane ‘Iwa. The DeSilva family, in economic straits, has suffered the setback of having to move from town to 'Ewa Beach, and the dissonance between parents impacts the lives of their young sons, Landon and Luke. In addition to humorous moments of growing up local, Portuguese, and Catholic, there are serious underlying themes regarding religion, ethn...

Poetry. Book + CD. Asian American Studies. This collection follows a year-long poetry chain written by four gifted poets--Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet S. Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion--following the style of Japanese linked verse, completed as an online project in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Bamboo Ridge Press, Hawai'i's oldest and longest-running independent literary small press. Includes a CD of the poets reading all 48 ...

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Filipino American Studies. "Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner's much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait"--R. Zamora Lin...

Magazine. Fiction. Poetry. Art. With the work of more than 30 writers, this issue of BAMBOO RIDGE opens with the work of the Editors' Choice Awards winners, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran for poetry, Tyler Miranda for prose, and Janine Oshiro for new BR writer. The award winners are followed by "Not Pau Yet, " a special section of selections from works in progress, excerpts from book-length manuscripts by Jeffrey Carroll, Lee Cataluna, J. Freen, Ann I...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Wing Tek Lum's poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy--from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate helpless parents and the brutalized "comfort women" to the bloodless yet vicious bureacrats of death."THE NANJING MASSACRE is a striking volume of poetry. The poems, ...