Research Catalog

Title

Growing up local : an anthology of poetry and prose from Hawaiʻi / edited by Eric Chock [and others].

Publication

Honolulu : Bamboo Ridge Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chock, Eric.

Description

382 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Bamboo ridge ; #72

Uniform Title

Bamboo ridge ; 72.

Alternative Title

Anthology of poetry and prose from Hawaiʻi

Subjects

• American fiction > 20th century
• Hawaii > Miscellanea
• Hawaii > Poetry

Language (note)

• In English and Hawaii Creole English.

Contents

• Introduction: Local Genealogy: What School You Went? / Darrell H. Y. Lum -- ma ket stenlei / Bradajo -- Allowance / Eric Chock -- Da Glove -- My First Walk with Ashley -- Fourth Grade Ukus / Marie M. Hara -- Rainbows Under Water / John Dominis Holt -- Chinatown / Ashley M. Houk -- When I Was Young on an Island / Hina Kahanu -- Chapter 3 from Comfort Woman / Nora Okja Keller -- Tongue / Juliet S. Kono -- Fourscore and Seven Years Ago / Darrell H. Y. Lum -- Giving Tanks -- An Image of the Good Times / Wing Tek Lum -- The Rooster / Makia Malo -- The Dream-Flyer / Elizabeth Manly -- Growing Up Barefoot / L. Nishioka -- The Poor Pagan Children / Susan Nunes -- The Gift / Gary Pak -- Broken Dream / Bronson Wayne Kealiikoa Rivera -- You Would Cry to See Waiakea Town / Graham Salisbury -- Adagio / Cathy Song -- The Grammar of Silk -- Childhood / M. Suzuki -- My Healer / Jean Yamasaki Toyama -- How to Cook Rice from A Little Too Much is Enough / Kathleen Tyau --
• Mixing Poi from A Little Too Much is Enough -- Puka Kinikini / Elizabeth Wight -- Boss of the Food / Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- Lickens -- Recollections / Anjanette Balinbin -- Kona Side / Arlene Biala -- Of Walls and Wheelbarrows / Eric Alfred Boteilho -- feescol ajukeshen / Bradajo -- Hawai'i Pono'i / Puanani Burgess -- Attack from Within / Stacy Chang -- Way Back to Palolo / Stuart Ching -- Making da Scene / Eric Chock -- The Tempura War / Shayna Ann A. Coleon -- Carnival Queen / Mavis Hara -- Short Tongue / Lisa Linn Kanae -- A Scolding from My Father / Juliet S. Kono -- From a...Box Builder / Lanning Lee -- The Visit / Tori Lono -- Orphan Annie: Coloring in the Eyes / Darrell H. Y. Lum -- No Mo' Fish on Maui / Barry Masuda -- Wonder Woman and My Junior Prom / Wendy Miyake -- An Infinitely Subtle Shame / Bill Miyasato -- The Monk and the Millipede / Jina Oshiro -- Where to Put Your Hands / Lee A. Tonouchi -- Kona Glitter, A Ghost Story / Kobai Scott Whitney --
• Tita: Boyfriends / Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- Point of Contact / Alohi Ae'a -- No Mindless Digging / Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Bangoo -- Choosing My Name / Puanani Burgess -- I Come from a Place / Ho'oipo DeCambra -- My Father's Garden / D. Mahealani Dudoit -- Max Was Hea / Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda -- Shame and the First Day of College / Darlene M. Javar -- A Bite of Kimchee / Nora Okja Keller -- Sister from Another Planet / Christine Kirk-Kuwaye -- Before Time / Juliet S. Kono -- Joji and the Iceman -- Late Praise -- Tai Chi Masters of Dim Sum Checks / Peter C. T. Li -- Childhood Memories / Wing Tek Lum -- Kids Do Things They Don't Mean -- Up Mauka / Michael McPherson -- The Waking Stone -- The Valley of the Dead Air / Gary Pak -- Pigeons of Autumn / Karen Shishido -- A Conservative View / Cathy Song -- How the Island Works / Gary Tachiyama -- Good fo' Be One Hapa Kid / Carrie Y. Takahata -- I Have a Story to Tell -- Making Yonsei --
• Jade Heart from A Little Too Much is Enough / Kathleen Tyau -- Afterword: I Wuz Hea / Eric Chock -- Afterword: Listening with an Outsider's Ear / Bill Teter.

ISBN

• 0910043531
• 0910043558 (hardcover)

OCLC

• 40050129
• ocm40050129

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries