Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Asian-American heritage; an anthology of prose and poetry
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Edited by David Hsin-Fu Wand
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- New York : Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, [1974]
- Physical Details
-
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- ISBNs
- 0671487566, 9780671487560
- OCLC
- ocm01044433, ocm01044433
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308).
- Stories. Commentary -- Crossing / Richard E. Kim -- They won't crack it open / Yong Ik Kim -- An empire of rubber balls / Say it with flowers / Toshio Mori -- Las Vegas Charley / Hisaye Ymamotto
- Poetry. Commentary -- Otherness ; Most satisfied by snow ; Tourist love ; Second nature / Diana Chang -- To a lady of Madison ; A soil with rain and sunshine / Ling Chung -- The gateless gate / John Hideyo Hamamura -- Haikai II ; Tanka V ; Tanka IX ; Cathedral Sacrilege / Sadakichi Hartmann -- Returning home after a trip, I find I can't remember / Alexander Kuo -- Old school ; The wild horse star ; On a 1970 T.V. singer / Stephen S.N. Liu -- Blessings ; To Li Po ; On George Jackson ; Upon hearing about the 1971 fourth coming of Charlie Chan ; Minority poem ; from Silences ; Juk / Wing Tek Lum -- Translating myself ; The reptilian brain / Suzi Mee -- Attack by water ; Lullabye ; Sing with your body / Janice Mirikitani -- Where I come ; cold waterhole / Paul Motoyoshi, Jr. -- The poet ; Certain abstractions ; The guard / Francis Naohiko Oka -- Lyric 17 ; Adaption 198 / Jose Garcia Villa -- Dynamo ; Quartet for Gary Snyder ; Miracle in Honolulu ; Rivers on fire ; Portrait of a failure ; The rub ; Cool cat ; The lapse / David Rafael Wang
- Essays. Commentary -- Prisoners / Daniel Iwao Okimoto -- In the media / Irvin Paik
- Novel excerpts. Commentary -- from East goes west / Younghill Kank -- America is in the heart / Carlos Bulosan -- The frontiers of love / Diana Chang -- Father and glorious descendant / Pardee Lowe -- No-no boy / John Okada
- Oral poetry. Commentary -- Hymn to Logologo Tangaloa, the creator of lands (Samoan) -- from Chant to Kualii (Hawaiian) -- Taunt song The woman who married a caterpillar The legend of Saveasi'uleo (Samoan)
- Biographical sketches -- A glossary of foreign terms -- Suggested further reading