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The wind-honed islands rise : selected poems of Reuben Tam.

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Description

101 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Reuben Tam was born on Kaua'i, the northernmost of the Hawaiian Islands. His early, formative years were spent combing its beaches and coastlines, while his later, mature years took him to another island in another ocean, Monhegan, off the coast of Maine. These two places shaped his entire life and informed both the subject matter and the spirit of his painting and his poetry.
While his painting and his poetry were seemingly disparate disciplines, they were both expressions of the same unique vision, a vision born of his love of the natural environment and his complete immersion in it. Every aspect of his professional and personal life, with its myriad interests and activities, reflected this vision.

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Contents

Letter from Kana'i -- Kealia Lookout -- 'A'a -- Hawaiian Archipelago -- Each Step You Take -- Waking to Makaleba -- To Anabola Mountain -- Looking for Wainiba -- At Ke'e -- Lapping -- Inter-Island Flight -- Tectonic -- Sphere -- Story of an Archipelago -- Yukon -- Maligne Lake Mountains -- Oregon -- Monhegan, October -- Off Maine -- Sphagnum -- Colony in Rock -- Falling -- Island Night -- Kaua'i from Monhegan -- From Kaua'i to Fundy -- Ways to the Stars -- We Live by the Sea -- If You Think the Sea Alien -- Where the Island Ended -- Adjectives for Sand -- Sandbars -- Ways to the Sea -- Phyla -- Night Sea -- The Band of the Sea -- Waipouli Reef -- Bikini -- Gathering Seaweed -- Shells -- In Micronesia -- From Meadow Rue -- Crawling -- Moon -- The Ironwoods -- High Tide -- The Quiet Side of the Island -- Other Strategies -- Ghost Dogs of Hala'ula -- In the Vastness of Zero -- Groundwater -- The Rainbow Shower -- My Kealia Landscape --
The Hills of East Kaua'i -- Liliko'i -- Humus -- Constellations of Aphids -- Inside the Island -- From Kilauea Point -- Return to First Land -- Full Moon Time -- In the Slant of Morning -- Stopping Before Olohena -- Being Here on the Seventh -- Teach Me Web -- The Dark That Folds the Leaves -- Night on a Hill.

ISBN

0824819322 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96045132

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries