T H E _ P R I S O N _ D I A R Y _
O F _ H O _ C H I _ M I N H
freely translated by Steve Bradbury 2003 $10
Design by Karen White
Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems -- at times witty, at other moments despairing -- chronicle Ho's prison life. A fine addition to Tinfish Press's Vietnamese poetry list, this book was translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan.
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Normie Salvador 2003 $8
Design by Jeff Sanner
Born, raised, and living in Waipahu, on the island of O`ahu, Salvador is decidedly not a local writer. Turning away from local themes of family, history, and culture, Salvador has written a collection of gothic love poems that incorporates mythology and science fiction among its tropes.
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By Deborah Meadows 2003 $10
Design by Stuart Henley
Deborah Meadows reads through Herman Melville's masterpiece, riffing off its concerns, but rendering them in utterly contemporary terms. Her questions, like Melville's, are both physical and metaphysical: "What and where is the mind? / Inscribed upon, see through / a brittle clarity, read through spectacles / that make a skin / over skin"
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N
O _ G U N S, _ N O _ D U R I A N
By Susan M. Schultz 2003
$7
Design by Ara Paylo
In this chapbook, whose title comes from the Cambodia diaries of Angelina
Jolie, Schultz (herself the adoptive mother of a Cambodian child) de-composes
some of the stories we tell about family and nation. In place of resemblance,
she posits other forms of relation. "What breaks, finally, is blood
and its thickness." ”Please
adopt this book for your course."
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C
A R V E D _ W A T E R
By Zhang Er 2003
$8
Design by Anne Sakutori
Zhang Er, who was born in Beijing and moved to the USA in 1986, writes
in Chinese, then translates her poems into English with various collaborators.
"Carved Water" was accomplished with renowned slam poet, Bob
Holman, combining her lyricism with his performative panache, the East
River with the Yangtze.
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L I V I N G
_ P I D G I N :
CONTEMPLATIONS ON PIDGIN CULTURE
Lee A. Tonouchi 2002 $10
A collection of da pidgin guerrilla's talks and poems,
over 60 pages, some concrete, on language and culture
in Hawai`i. Designed by Mike Cueva
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Living Pidgin has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of Illinois
Sawako Nakayasu 2002 $7
Sawako Nakayasu is a graduate of the Brown University writing program and currently lives in Japan. She co-edits FACTORIAL, a journal devoted to collaborative work. The recent KENNING cd included her work. Designed by Jung Kim.
A
_ P I E C E _ O F _ W O R K
Murray Edmond 2002 $7
"A Piece of Work" pays homage to the poet's mother, even as it chronicles
moments in the history of New Zealand. A long poem in 80 sections by one
of New Zealand's most prominent contemporary poets. Author biography:
Murray Edmond's most recent of 8 volumes of poetry before "A Piece of
Work" was "Laminations" from Auckland University Press in 2000. He was
also one of the three editors, with Alan Brunton and Michele Leggott,
of "Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975" (Auckland UP, 2000), an anthology
of radical poetry from that time. Designed by Ken Lincoln.
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M
A T E R I A L _ L Y R I C S
[out of print]
Susan Schultz 2002 $3
A sequence of prose poems that engages both the language of the military
and American "diplomacy" during the Vietnam era and first attempts at
language by the poet's young son, Sangha, adopted from Cambodia. Designed
by Gaye Chan.
H
A M B U R G E R
Steve Carll 2002 $5
A small book about hamburgers that slips into a bright foil hamburger
sleeve. Moral and political provocations abound. Designed by Anne
Sakutori.
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3
_ V I E T N A M E S E _ P O E T S
Linh Dinh 2002 $9
Linh Dinh translates the work of Nguyen Quoc Chanh, Phan Nhien Hao, and
Van Cam Hai. Designed by Stuart Henley.
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S
I S T A _ T O N G U E
Lisa Linn Kana`e 2001 $10
Tinfish Press's all-time best-selling book, used in courses at the University
of Oregon, the University of Hawai`i, and the University of Washington.
A wonderful meditation on language, "handicap," and the treatment of pidgin
speakers in Hawai`i. Designed by Kristin Gonzales.
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Sista Tongue has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, and University of Texas
P
H Y S I C S _ & _ 12 _ S C E N E S _ F R O M _ 1 2 A M
Lisa Asagi and Gaye Chan 2001
One for $5 or both for $7
Two poems in prose, presented as maps.
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D
E A R _ D A D
Bill Luoma 2000 $6
Quirky and moving prose elegies to the poet's father, with art and design
by Gaye Chan.
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P
A C I F I C _ P O S T M O D E R N
Rob Wilson 2000 $5
An essay that explores the place of Tinfish in the contemporary Pacific,
as well as treating settler poetry from Australia, and tourism in Waikiki.
Far ranging, thoughtful, and formally innovative work from an important
critic of the Pacific. Designed by KC Mah.
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Pacific Postmodern has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of California Santa Cruz
Nell Altizer $5
Sonnets about Ireland, language, place, and love.
Tony Quagliano $5
V
I R T U A L _ F L E A L I T Y
red flea $5
cd version can be ordered from Richard Hamasaki
at <redflea@hawaii.rr.com>
Susan M. Schultz and John Kinsella, 1997 $2
Poems exchanged between authors via email during 1996, on subjects in the main fin-de-siecle. John Kinsella is a major Australian poet, the author of over 20 books of poems and two novels. He teaches at Cambridge University, Kenyon College, and Edith Cowan University in western Australia. Designed by Suzanne Kosanke
4-
E V A Z , A N N A
[out of print]
Kathy Banggo $5
Written in thick pidgin, this book is set in Wahiawa, Hawai`i; the poems
are at once lyrical and brutal, always thought-provoking.
4-evaz, Anna has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of California Santa Cruz
