Before the City
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0974106704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 101 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Gerard Jones said As much about the rest of the US as about Hawaii. I lived in Hawaii for a year; Kirby Wright lived there a lot longer than that. Hawaii's a different country, a more innocent land, a different "state" than the rest of the US. It infects you, that state does, and when you're infected by Hawaii and find yourself in Northern California, and Southern California, and Sunnyvale, and New Jersey you look at those places differently than if you were from just another part of the country. Or Kirby Wright does. He can't help it. There are more poems set in California in this book than there are poems set in Hawaii, b. Keiki O Ka Aina I was there at Iolani Palace in '93 when Wright was handing out copies of "Aloha, Lili'uokani," a broadside framed with Hawaiian petroglyphs. The persistent blues feel of that poem reminded me of IZ's "Hawaii '78," and I think if IZ was still alive today he would put music to the words. That poem is in this collection and there are 9 other poems set on Oahu and Moloka'i. I would totally recommend buying this nani book if you are from the islands or an ex-pat living on the mainland. A hui hou!
He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. Wright has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Honolulu Weekly Nonfiction Award, the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Rober
His heart is in Hawaii and California, aina and querencia. "I recognize Kirby Wright as one of my own people, the citizens of the Pacific Rim. His fresh new voice sings love and concern for the beings along the shores and in the parks and gardens—and in the cities." —Maxine Hong Kingston
--Rudolfo Anaya . His heart is in Hawaii and California, aina and querencia. Wright's talent for seeing and naming the essence of a place is a talent born in Hawaii, in aloha aina, the love of the land in which a person has roots and hopes. --Maxine Hong KingstonKirby Wright's poetry has always driven to the heart of the land and its people. --Maui WeeklyI recognize Kirby Wright as one of my own people, the citizens of the Pacific Rim