Sky Country
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-942683-43-8 (ISBN)
Many of these poems revolve around the immigration experiences of the author's two grandmothers: her maternal grandmother, who came from Korea after the Korean War; and her paternal grandmother, who immigrated from Japan in 1914. They also deal with the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. When her father was 16, he was incarcerated at Topaz Concentration Camp in Utah.
One of the goals of this collection is to give voice to those who have been historically silenced. All of the voices in this collection are female, and many of them are women who have often been left out of a grander narrative.
Kitano has spent much of her career studying the Japanese American experience, and regularly attends the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) at the American Literature Association, and the U.S.-Japan Council annual conference.
Poems from Sky Country have been published widely in such places as: Asian American Literary Review; Atticus Review; Blue Lyra Review; Chicago Quarterly Review; Codex; Connotation Press; Crab Orchard Review; Miramar; Newfound Journal; The Pinch; Smartish Pace; Tar River Poetry; and Wildness.
Christine Kitano's first collection of poetry, Birds of Paradise, was published in 2011 by Lynx House Press. She received her BA from the University of California, her MFA from Syracuse University, and her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, and currently lives in Ithaca, NY, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature at Ithaca College.
Table of Contents
A Leaving … 1
I
Sky Country … 3
II
Gaman … 11
February, 1943 … 12
Equinox … 13
I Will Explain Hope … 14
Fireflies … 15
About the Trees … 16
III
Leaving California … 19
Before the Divorce, a Dry Thunderstorm … 20
Ancestors … 21
Lucky Come Hawai`i … 22
Summer: Insomniac Stages Her Love … 23
Monologue of the Dental Assistant … 24
Insomniac in Winter … 26
Monologue of the Fat Girl … 27
Insomniac in Spring … 29
Choose Your Own Adventure: Go South … 30
Insomniac in Fall … 31
Worship … 32
Insomniac Starts an Exercise Routine … 33
IV
Years Later, Washing Dishes, A Vision … 35
The Night Before Your 28th Birthday … 36
Roofing … 37
Bring in the Flowers Before the Santa Anas … 38
Autobiography of the Poet at Sixteen … 39
A Story With No Moral … 41
Friday Night Affair … 46
V
1942: In Response to Executive Order 9066 … 48
Grandmother Tells Me a Story: Passing the Lake, Korea, 1952 … 49
Chicken Soup … 50
Persimmons … 52
Earthquake Drills … 53
For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard … 54
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Poets Continuum |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942683-43-X / 194268343X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942683-43-8 / 9781942683438 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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