Английская Википедия:Garrett Hongo

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox writer Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born May 30, 1951Шаблон:Citation needed) is a Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese American academic and poet. His work draws on Japanese American history and his own experiences.

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The River of Heaven (1988).

Early life

Шаблон:BLP unreferenced section Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai'i. He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine.

Hongo has been awarded fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Career

Hongo is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon. From 1989 through 1993, he was the director of the university's Program in Creative Writing.

Hongo has published three books of poetry. His first was Yellow Light (1982), and The River of Heaven (1988) was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (1995) was awarded the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction.Шаблон:Citation needed Hongo has also worked as an editor on Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi (1994) and on The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).Шаблон:Citation needed

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Garett Hongo, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 30+ works in 70+ publications in two languages and 4,600+ library holdings. Шаблон:Dynamic list

• The Buddha Bandits down Highway 99 (1978)
• Yellow Light (University of California, Irvine, 1980; Wesleyan University Press, 1982, Шаблон:ISBN)
• The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988, Шаблон:ISBN; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001, Шаблон:ISBN)
• The Open boat: Poems from Asian America (1993)
• Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi (1995)
• Coral Road: Poems (2011)
• The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2017, Шаблон:ISBN)
• The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (2022)

Anthologies

• "from Cruising 99", The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, Шаблон:ISBN
• "Yellow Light", Bold words: a century of Asian American writing, Editors Rajini Srikanth, Esther Yae Iwanaga, Rutgers University Press, 2001, Шаблон:ISBN
• "Kapu Tube", Hawaiʻi: true stories of the island spirit, Editors Rick Carroll, Marcie Carroll, Travelers' Tales, 1999, Шаблон:ISBN
• "Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi", What book!?: Buddha poems from beat to hiphop, Editor Gary Gach, Parallax Press, 1997, Шаблон:ISBN
• Unsettling America: an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry, Editors Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Penguin Books, 1994, Шаблон:ISBN

See also

• List of Asian American writers
• List of people from Hawaii

References

• Calabrese, Joseph, and Susan Tchudi. (2006). Diversity: Strength and Struggle. New York: Pearson Longman. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 60972078
• Serafin, Steven and Alfred Bendixen. (2006). "Hongo, Garrett (Kaoru)," in The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. New York: Continuum. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 61478088

Further reading

• Drake, Barbara. (1992). "Garrett Kaoru Hongo," in American Poets since World War II, 3rd series (Gwynn, R. S., ed.). Detroit, Michigan: Gale. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 26158348
• Filipelli, Laurie. (1997). Garrett Hongo. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University Press. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 37550317
• Fonseca, Anthony J. (2005). "Garrett Kaoru Hongo," in Asian American Writers (Madsen, Deborah L., ed.) Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 57414491
• Kamada, Roy Osamu. (2006). "Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, Garrett Hongo and Derek Walcott," in Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006 Jan; 66 (7): 2573. U of California, Davis, 2005. (dissertation abstract)
• Schröder, Nicole. (2006). Spaces and Places in Motion: Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr. Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 76949181
• Witonsky, Trudi. (2000). "Twilight Conversations: Multicultural Dialogue," in Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present (Ghymn, Esther Mikyung, ed.) New York: Peter Lang. Шаблон:ISBN; OCLC 40881565

Journals

• Colley, Sharon E. "An Interview with Garrett Hongo," Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, 1996 Summer; 4: 47-63.
• Hull, Glynda. "This Wooden Shack Place: the Logic of an Unconventional Reading," College Composition and Communication, 1990 Oct; 41 (3): 287-98.
• Jarman, Mark. "The Volcano Inside," The Southern Review, 1996 Spring; 32 (2): 337-43.
• McCormick, Adrienne. "Theorizing Difference in Asian American Poetry Anthologies," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2004 Fall-Winter; 29 (3-4): 59-80.
• Sato, Gayle K. "Cultural Recuperation in Garrett Hongo's The River of Heaven," Studies in American Literature (Kyoto, Japan), 2001 Feb; 37: 57-74.
• Slowik, Mary. "Beyond Lot's Wife: the Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura," MELUS, 2000 Fall-Winter; 25 (3-4): 221-42.

External links

• Academy of American Poets bio (accessed March 2008)
• Modern American Poetry page (accessed March 2008)
• Interview with Hongo on Words on a Wire