Quiet Fire: Asian American Poetry, 1892-1970

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This landmark anthology provides the first historical survey of Asian American poetry. The poems were selected to reflect both the high quality and wide range of Asian American poetic discourse.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781889876023
  • Publisher: Temple University Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/1998
  • Series: Asian American Writers Worksh Ser.
  • Pages: 164
  • Product dimensions: 5.93 (w) x 8.92 (h) x 0.56 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cyanogen Seas are Surging 1
Cathedral Sacrilege 2
Darkness in Space 3
To the 'Flat-Iron' 6
Tanka I 7
Tanka III 8
Seas of Loneliness 9
Lines 10
In Japan Beyond 11
To Robert Browning 12
Hole-hole Bushi 13
From: Song of Gold Mountain 16
To Elizabeth 22
Miriam 23
Michigan Boulevard 24
Chicago River 25
The Laundry Song 26
I Am a Firefly 28
Shantung 29
Chinaman, Laundryman 31
Rickshaw Boy 34
He was Satirizing 37
One Sun 40
Hunger 41
Silent Intimacy 42
Hidden Flame 43
To Witter Bynner 44
Air Ride 45
Coolie Song 46
From: Island 47
Dusk 50
Attitude 51
The Dream 52
Rationalized 53
In Topaz 54
Hokku 55
Retrospect 56
Et Ego In America Vixi 57
Spring Dirge 58
In America 59
White Night in Chicago 60
57 61
Untitled ("When,I") 62
At the Window 63
Factory Town 64
Biography 65
If You Want to Know... 66
Untitled 68
Pebble 69
Transcontinental 70
Iseult 71
Untitled 72
From: Sounds from the Unknown: A Collection of Japanese-American Tanka 73
They are Burning 77
Mountain 78
Pinocchio 80
Jacob - For Wes 81
Righteous Cleansing 82
Fillmore Street Poems: August, 1967 83
A Script: Beauty is the beginning of terror 85
Bharata Natyam Dancer 86
Spring Comes to Kresge Co. 87
Bastard 89
Rain 90
West Side Songs 91
Untitled 98
Biographical Notes 101
Appendix A: Reminiscences 106
Appendix B: Bibliography 138
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