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The River of Heaven Poems - A Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary
1st Carnegie Mellon University Press Edition
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The River of Heaven was awarded the 1987 Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets for a distinguished second book of poems (judges: Philip Booth, Alfred Corn, Mary Oliver). In it Garrett Hongo has drawn from his unusual background (born in Volcano, Hawaii, of Japanese ancestry, and educated in California at Pomona) to provide the materials for poems that would be highly exotic were they not infused with a level-headed sense of realism and a strong feeling that mundane realities are perfectly natural material for the poetry of our time. Here, Garrett Hongo transforms his mundane realities into elegant poetry. The volcanoes of Hawaii, the gritty urban streets of Los Angeles, a California beach after the death of his father-the places of Garrett Hongo's past metamorphose into a poetry that is compelling and immediate.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780887483585 |
Publisher: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Imprint: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Pub date: | 29 May 2024 |
Edition: | 1st Carnegie Mellon University Press Edition |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 67 |
Weight: | 136g |
Height: | 231mm |
Width: | 137mm |
Spine width: | 5mm |