Research Catalog

Title

Blues and greens : a produce worker's journal / Alan Chong Lau.

Author

Lau, Alan Chong.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

xii, 115 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

Uniform Title

Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Subjects

• Farm produce > Poetry
• Vegetables > Poetry
• Produce trade > Poetry
• Fruit > Poetry

Contents

• a blue note -- morning blues -- 6 A.M. -- primping -- going for a dip -- preparing sashimi -- winter melon -- nasubi -- melons -- chi goo -- bitter melon -- ginger -- red delicious -- uncovering the evidence -- boy at play -- the end of spring -- bean sprouts -- the price -- when it rains -- raw peanuts -- grapes -- stormbringer -- the green mustache -- shoplifter -- mustard greens -- issei farmer -- the gambler's wife -- the voice -- this is only a test -- the old man remembers asparagus -- fishing -- in summer -- the accident -- omens -- mothra's cousin grazes the produce rack -- strange root -- paper flowers -- the sale on water chestnuts -- matsutake, living treasures under the pine -- sorting things out -- escape from the fish tank -- garden of eden -- garden of eden 2 -- sign language -- the king's english -- the gesture -- the meat of a mango -- sprout woman -- plumbing the depths -- late summer -- the footprint -- green onions -- black iris --
• scavengers -- the sore loser -- the gate -- this sky -- starting work -- the apology -- tools of his trade -- baby ruth -- finding the hair of a mexican woman in this box of sugar peas -- the raft -- a view from the stairs -- boredom -- the river, the potatoes -- after the rain -- long beans and the maori warrior -- the squeak of sugar peas -- the return of the gambler's wife -- frost warning -- the argument -- three lumpy oranges -- bunching gai lan -- the spill -- perfection in design -- the kids from tokyo -- the interrogation -- ID at dusk -- the fight -- in front of the bank -- orphan -- her brown face -- day of the parade -- a funny word -- two women talking -- the boy and the jackfruit -- when work lets out -- coming home.

ISBN

• 0824822102 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0824823230 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99057298

OCLC

• ocm42812984
• SCSB-3867572

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries