The Best of Bamboo Ridge

Poetry. Fiction. This anthology of fiction and poetry is a good introductory survey of Hawai'i literature. Selected from issues of the first eight years of BAMBOO RIDGE, The Hawaii Writers' Quarterly, it features the work of more than 50 writers and includes an introduction by the editors as well as an essay on Asian american literature in Hawai'i by Stephen Sumida.

We Saw Three Different Store-ladies by Sheri Mae Akamine
Poem For George Helm Aloha Week 1980 by Eric Edward Chock
Termites by Eric Edward Chock
Tutu On The Curb by Eric Edward Chock
Pa-ke by Herbert Chun
Clear Eyes by Tamatha F.
Songs From The Ancient And Modern by Jan Day Fehrman
Inheritance by Wanda Fujimoto
Some Years Ago by Caroline Garrett
T'ang Fishermen by Dana Naone Hall
Letter To Paris by Gail N. Harada
Water Born by Norman Hindley
Ass Why Hard by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
C & H Sugar Strike Kahuku, 1923 by Garrett Kaoru Hongo
Fish Story by Dean H. Honma
To Buddy, On The Edge by Dean H. Honma
Ho. Just Cause I Speak Pidgin No Mean I Dumb by Diane Hina Kahanu
I Am The Eyeball Looking At You by Kaipo
Order by Dennis Kawaharada
Rain Quietude by Gary Richard Kissick
The Cane Cutters by Juliet S. Kono
Grandmother And The War by Juliet S. Kono
Yonsei by Juliet S. Kono
Freeway Poem by Laurie Kuribayashi
Like Love by Laurie Kuribayashi
Chinese Hot Pot by Wing Tek Lum
I Caught Him Once by Wing Tek Lum
The Poet Imagines His Grandfather's Thoughts On The Day He Died by Wing Tek Lum
Riding The North Point Ferry by Wing Tek Lum
Taking Her To The Open Market by Wing Tek Lum
Dear Reiko: 1968 - 1978 by Jody Manabe
Junior Got The Snakes by Michael Mcpherson
At The Volcano Internment Camp by Muin Otokichi Ozaki
Fort Sill Internment Camp by Muin Otokichi Ozaki
On The Ship To The Mainland by Muin Otokichi Ozaki
Crack Seed by Kathy Phillips
Kuan Yin Mingles With The Ghosts, Now On Guided Tour by Kathy Phillips
Kuan Yin Turns Her Photo Album To A Certain Point by Kathy Phillips
Tanka: Death At The Camp by Keiho Yasutaro Soga
Easter: Wahiawa, 1959: 1 by Cathy Song
Easter: Wahiawa, 1959: 2 by Cathy Song
Tribe by Cathy Song
The White Porch by Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter by Cathy Song
Forging A Passport by William Edgar Stafford
The Kim Chee Test by Joseph Stanton
Reviewing The Scene by Gary Tachiyama
Someday, But For Now by Gary Tachiyama
Arrest by Sojin Tokiji Takei
Haru Asaki by Sojin Tokiji Takei
Homecoming by Sojin Tokiji Takei
Ikuman O by Sojin Tokiji Takei
Santa Fe Internment Camp by Sojin Tokiji Takei
Tansu I by Raynette Takizawa
Faces On The Unpaved Road Past Mokule'ia by Wini Terada
The Last Turnings Of The Season's Wheel by Debra Thomas
Where You Sleep by Debra Thomas
Etiquette by Jean Yamasaki Toyama
Fever by Jo Ann Uchida
In My Body by Anonymous
The Anatomy Of The Infinite by Martha Webb
Song At Hanalei by Martha Webb
Las Horas De Verdad (the Hours Of Truth) by Jill E. Widner
Trembling by Jill E. Widner
Anita Sky by Rob Wilson
Strange Scent by Tamara Laulani Wong-morrison
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®