Research Catalog

Title

Sky country : poems / by Christine Kitano.

Author

Kitano, Christine, 1985-

Publication

• Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

80 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Christine Kitano's second poetry collection elicits a sense of hunger-an intense longing for home and an ache for human connection. Channeling both real and imagined immigration experiences of her own family-her grandmothers, who fled Korea and Japan; and her father, a Japanese American who was incarcerated during WWII-Kitano's ambitious poetry speaks for those who have been historically silenced and displaced"--

Series Statement

American poets continuum series ; no. 162

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• American poets continuum series v. 162.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Japanese Americans > Poetry
• POETRY / American / Asian American
• HISTORY / Asia / Korea
• Japanese Americans

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A Leaving -- Sky Country – Gaman -- February, 1943: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah – Equinox -- I Will Explain Hope – Fireflies -- About the Trees -- Leaving California -- Before the Divorce, a Dry Thunderstorm – Ancestors -- Lucky Come Hawai'I -- Summer: Insomniac Stages Her Love -- Monologue of the Dental Assistant -- Insomniac in Winter -- Monologue of the Fat Girl -- Insomniac in Spring -- Choose Your Own Adventure: Go South -- Insomniac in Fall – Worship -- Insomniac Starts an Exercise Routine -- Years Later, Washing Dishes, A Vision -- The Night Before Your 28th Birthday – Roofing -- Bring in the Flowers Before the Santa Anas -- Autobiography of the Poet at Sixteen -- A Story with No Moral -- Friday Night Affair -- 1942: In Response to Executive Order 9066, My Father, Sixteen, Takes -- Grandmother Tells Me a Story: Passing the Lake, Korea, 1952 -- Chicken Soup – Persimmons -- Earthquake Drills -- For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard

ISBN

• 9781942683438
• 194268343X

LCCN

^^2017012292

OCLC

982465192

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library