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Two Poems Written on a Visit to Hawaii Three Poems Four Poems The Sleeping Mountain Four Poems Two Poems Four Feet Between Two Poems Three Poems Three Poems Poems Adapted f rom the Chinese Flight Information Two Poems Two Poems Tantalus Makiki Pumping Station Vietcong Woman Cocoon Island The Girl Who Had Borne Too Much Like a Woman in the Kitchen Setting This Down Poem Sitka llotusbound
Fiction JAMES SHIELDS R. D . SKILLINGS EARL COOPER C. E. POYERMAN C HRIST INE COOK NOTES
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Poetry ALEIXANDRE
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Fourteen PoemsTranslated by Timothy Baland, Robert Bly, and Lewis Hyde
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Two PoemsTranslated by Robert Bly and Vera Dunham Windsong for Prince Henry's Daughter Five Translations from the Creole Night Letter
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Blue Fabric The 7-11 in Alexandria Nebula Fright Drinking Hot Sake with My Grandfather
ELIZABETH SHINODA GLENN KIMATA EARL COOPER
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CLINTON YUEN
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The Old House Two Poems After Giving up Fishing for the Day High and Quiet
RUSSELL EDSON
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HOWARD ALLAN NORMAN
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WILLIAM STAFFORD
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Strange People in Space/ A Meditation Three Translations from the Creole Trying to Become a Confessional Poet
Fiction IAN MACMILLAN DAVID WILD MARl NAKAMURA LOWELL UDA ALAN S . FUJIMOTO
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FALL 1979
EDITOR Anita Povich POETRY EDITORS Laurie K~ribayashi Steven Nimtz
FICTION EDITOR Valentino Ramirez
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INTERVIEW Conversation with DIANE WAKOSKI
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from Communion A Raging Thirst for the National Drink of Hawaii Elmo Gets Energized Five Stories Dear Valerie Next Summer
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GRAEME GIBSON TIMOTHY S. GOINS LESLIE BOONE WILLIAM D. STEINHOFF CHRISTI SHIGENAGA LOIS HUDSON
POETRY PORTFOUO Seven Poems Nine Poems
121 134
NORMAN HINDLEY NELL ALTIZER
POETRY 30 48 54
Two Poems Two Poems Island
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DIANE WAKOSKI MARGARET ATWOOD JOSEPHINE MILES
Honolulu Two Poems Here I Am 'Awapuhi Two Poems A Trade for Daydreams Two Poems Two Poems Cheyenne Plain Three Poems The Act of Love Two Poems Four Poems Unsent Birthday Card Neighbor Lady My Family in the Country Out of the Desert, Into the Rain Poems from Ye llow C reek Spring Journal
55
Notes on Contributors
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ROBERT MAZZOCCO VALENTINO RAMIREZ GARY TACHIYAMA PUANANI BURGESS JANE ANDERSON SANDRA AKAMINE JOSEPH BRUCHAC LEONARD NATHAN PATTI PATTON MERYL SIEGAL STEPHEN THOMAS SHERI MAE AKAMINE UN UFSHIN GARY SANGE STEVEN LAUTERMILCH LEE UPTON SE RA HIRASUNA MESSING
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JUDITH MINTY
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STEVE SHRADER
FICTION The Neighborhood Angel, My Angel The Surfer Maui Lifts the Sky The Children Three Stories Barney's Leg
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NINOTCHKA ROSCA DAVID NELSON ASABABER STEVEN GOLDSBERRY MARJORIE SINCLAIR AZIZNESIN VICTORIA NELSON
DRAMA Yoshitsune
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MILTON MURAYAMA
POETRY FEATURE
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CONTEMPORARY EAST ASIAN POETS {Pien Chih-lin, Ts'ao Pao-hua, Wang Hsin-ti, Ai Ch'ing, Hsin Ti, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Ono Tozaburo, Ishihara Yoshiro, Cho Chi-hun)
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POETRY What For The Man From Buena Vista Poem Epigrams from the Prakrit Claude Glass Three Haiku Three Poems Two Poems Two Poems Looking For Yesterday Two Poe ms Two Poe ms East/West Poem Tearing Down A Plantation House Island in Autumn Chinatown Two Poems What Is Quiet Inside Leaving My Bones Behind A Rebirth Two Poems
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ESSAYS Disappearing Into the Text: Dithyramb and Nome in Keats's Odes The Cantos of E zra Pound: East vs. West
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DANIEL STEMPEL
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RICHARD HAMASAKI
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ROB WILSON
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MARJORIE SINCLAIR
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MARVIN BELL
REVIEWS Celebration of Continuity by Pe te r H. Lee The Stone ofKannon by Ozzie Bushnell The Snow Leopard by Pete r Matthiessen Poetry Hawaii , edited by Frank Stewart and John Unterecker
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COVER POETRY PORTFOLIO
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LAURIE KURIBAYASlfl
Two Poems A Supper in Winter Riding with my Father Waking Together Tai-po
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JUDITH MINTY HOWARD NELSON TRAN THI NGA KENT UClflYAMA ROBERT F. WlflSTLER .
Exhibition of Blue Ladies Cold Sheets ' Patrice A Tea A Noh Play Two Poems Three Poems Mandala
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SCOTT C. CAIRNS
Reading Their Talk
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Poet Explains Love to Doctor
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CAROLYN LAU-MANNING
Shore Leave Four Poems
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SUSAN DEMAREST
Two Poems
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ROLAND THARP
Two Poems
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STEVEN GOLDSBERRY
Lullaby
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DANIEL KANEMITSU
Two Haiku
D. H. BLEYTHING
Tell
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For E. S. H., 1918-1973
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JOHN HECKATHORN
PuaH1nano
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KAWEHILANI NEUMANN
Hanohano Nu'uanu
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KATHERINE ROSE
Ke Kupuna No'eau
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WALTER M. K. LAYMANCE
INTERVIEW Galway Kinnell
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The Language of Hands Blind Betty
Ferry 'cross the River Two Poems Three Poems Cambridge Reverie
Louis Simpson Judith Minty
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WANDA COLEMAN WILLIAM STAFFORD
BILL GOTTLIEB
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REVIEW Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
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by Galway Kinnell
Notes on Contributors
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HAWAll REVIEW SPRING 1982
The staff of Hawaii Review would like to express their appreciation to Professor William Huntsberry, who is retiring from the Department of English this year. Since the early 1950's; Professor Huntsberry has supported and acted as an advisor for literary publications at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Beginning in 1973 when Hawaii Review published its first issue, and throughout the history of the Review, he has provided a much needed stability and continuity, wisdom and wit. Essentially, he has _a tways been there to help. Thanks.
BARBARA FULKERSON Editor
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Halawa Valley Slide Show Four Oahu Tales Hunters in the Fields of August Stealing from My Grandmother Three Short Poems Having to Do with Darkness My Love Brings Flowers Northern Blue Melchior Two Poems Two Poems Two Poems Brueghel's "Triumph of Death" Shell Beach Woodrose Tsunami Amateur Photographers Cambodia: Invitation to an Itinerant Reaper Let's Bring Faith to the Onset of the Cold Season
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VICTORIA NELSON
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WANDA COLEMAN ZDENEK M. KLUZAK PATRICE WILSON CATHY SONG WIN! TERADA CINDY SETO JOSEPH STANTON
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JEANNE LOHMANN DEBRA THOMAS BILL MIYASATO JULIETKONO MICHAEL HIGGINS
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A Conversation with Marvin Bell Correspondence
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TOM HILGERS
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MARVIN BELL and WILLIAM STAFFORD SUSAN NUNES MICHAEL ONDAATJE DARRELL H.Y. LUM MICHAEL MCPHERSON
A Small Obligation Monsoon Notebooks The Moiliili Bag Man Clouds, Trees & Ocean, North Kauai Two Poems Pharaoh The Moon is a Streetlamp Feelings on Faye Poem elegy Five Sisters Dream Leakage Going to a Funeral OhWow Prove It To Me from Exiles into Fire
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Contributor's Notes
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HARRIET SUSSKIND PAULGENEGA BILL REISNER CINDY S. IKENAGA TONY QUAGLIANO EDWARD FALCO ARCHIBALD HENDERSON PETER LASALLE WINGTEKLUM MARLA HAMABATA WILLIAM D. STEINHOFF MATIAS MONTESHUIDOBRO
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The Dollmaker Cana Root Again Gaugin That Was Last Year Kilauea Toward the Cave of the Three Brothers . The Shadow Warrior Small Gifts The Survivor Paradox Letter for a Brother Post Storm The Bareroot Season Reflection The Butterfly Hunt Sleep in the Tropics Da Well Chasing the 'Trane Timing The Search for Walter.Horace Daylamps Explanations to the Mirror Conjuring Panic 'Haleakala
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MAY SUM LOONG JAMESVINK MICHAEL McPHERSON ARYEijLEVSTOLLMAN GENE FRUMKIN RODNEY MORALES KATHY MATSUEDA BILL RANSOM · KARLA M. HAMMOND THELMAJRELAND LAURA KALPAKIAN ].B. GOODENOUGH MARGOT TREITEL ALAN NAGATA CHRIS K. TANIGUCHI GAYSffiLEY CHERYLE HANNIGAN ROBERT BOWIE WALTER PAVLICH JAMES SALLIS PERRY GLASSER VICTORIA EMERY
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Coming Back Malarna King Coral The Match Sojourn Human Sacrifice Landscape The Snake Greta's Law Ghost Story excerpts from Growing Up With Ghosts The Need to Speak Gardens and Orchards
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VICTORIA NELSON MICHAEL McPHERSON MARIKUBO BOB GREEN JENNIFER MARTIN VICTORIA EMERY NELL ALTIZER SHIHO S. NUNES ROB WILSON MARJORIE SINCLAIR
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HAWAll REVIEW Spring1984
Editor Managing Editor Poetry Editor Fiction Editor Staff
Lizabeth Ball donna Gordon Bair Zdenek Kluzak Rodney Morales Tim Arney William Danks Ann Kamimura Shirley Lee Charles Miller Nancy Mower Dan Ness Margaret Russo Jeannie Thompson Holly Yamada
CONTENTS
Four Poems Washington Park Three Poems Mother of Pearl The Foe The Nesting Ground in Fall Two Poems Hakalau Gregory Orr in Conversation Two Poems Seedless "Think of the Children, the Little Children" Wolf-Shepherd Cross A Natural History of Sea Turtles The Papayas Foreign Salesclerk Two Poems Might Leave Here By Summer' s End
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Victoria Emery Steve Rinehart Steven Goldsberry Christine Kirk-Kuwaye TyPak Mitchell LesCarbeau Reuben Tam Chris Rust Vesna Gaspari-Roberts Debra Thomas Kathy Matsueda Janos Kandel
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Tim Arney Barbara Wright
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John Unterecker Holly Yamada Charles Edward Eaton RobDudko
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HAWAll REVIEW Fall1984
LIZABETH BALL Editor donna GORDON BAIR Managing Editor ZDENEK KLUZAK Poetry Editor RODNEY MORALES Fiction Editor TIM ARNEY BETH CUTHRELL SUSAN KOMO NANCY MOWER MARGARET RUSSO JEANNIE THOMPSON JILL WIDNER Readers
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David P. Penhallow
MOMI AND PERCY
1
KANIKAU
12
Anna Derby Howe Blackwell
THREE POEMS
20
Gary Kissick
TWO POEMS
23
Eric Chock
INFLAMED
27
Pat Matsueda
TWO POEMS
28
Juliet S. Kono
YOUNG HANDS, YOUNG FACE
34
Kenneth Zamora Damacion
MOVING OUT FOR THE LAST TIME
36
Jim Daniels
MEIJIRO IN A GUAVA GROVE
37
Fred 0 . Baysa
LINES
38
Elisa Mu i
KOETSU: MOON AND RABBIT
39
Phyllis Thompson
TWO POEMS
40
Gene Frumkin
FIXING RANDOM
42
Holly Yamada
TWO POEMS
47
Mitchell LesCarbeau
IN THE VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES
51
Loretta Petrie
LETTER FROM KAUAI
53
Reuben Tam
TWO POEMS
54
Bill Danks
NIGHTMARE
57
Joseph P. Salaz
THE LION FARM
59
Leonard Nathan
THE MARINER'S PRINCESS
60
Geoline Abraham
VANISHING POINT
61
Esther Yoon
UNTITLED
64
Keolani Taitano
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A WANDERER
65
Jaroslav Liska
SUNSET BEACH AT NIGHT
66
Thomas M. Cashman
BEFORE THE STORM IN PROGRESSO
67
Roland Tharp
WONDER WHEEL
69
Arthur G. Kimball
PEREGRINE FALCON
70
Peter Gorham
BOB THE ALIEN
71
Scott Roeben
TWO POEMS
74
Robert Wexelblatt
FIRST DAYS IN EXILE, 1984
77
Houston Wood
THREE POEMS
80
Norman Hindley
TAKING ADVICE
86
Ben Adres
ALOHA SHIRT
87
Michael McPherson
TWO POEMS
88
Dean H. Honma
CUTTHROAT: APLAYER WHO PLAYS FOR HIMSELF
92
Sherri Szeman
from PROUD MONSTER: SKETCHES
94
lan MacMillan
MAUl THE DEMIGOD review
104
Reinhard Friederich
HO' IHO'I HOU: A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HELM AND KIMO MITCHELL review
109
Craig Howes
CONTRIBUTORS
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lications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Subscriptions and manuscripts should be sent to Hawaii Review, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of English, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu , Hawaii 96822. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Hawaii Review is a member
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ZDENEK KLUZAK editor in chief MARGARET RUSSO managing editor HOLLY YAMADA fiction editor DEANHONMA poetry editor
JEANNIE THOMPSON TIM ARNEY ROBERTA YOUNG CHRIS TANIGUCHI readers
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TWO POEMS
1
Frank Stewart
THREE POEMS
3
Norman Hindley
DAYBREAK OVER HALEAKALA/HEARTBREAK MEMORIES (A Two-Sided Hit)
7
Rodney Morales
SIX POEMS ABOUT ARTISTS
25
Pat Matsueda
TWO POEMS
31
Chris Taniguchi
BORN AND BRED
33
Lanning Lee
HULIHEE
44
Marjorie Edel
MICHAEL'S DIRECTION
45
Debra Thomas
FOUR POEMS
46
Gene Frumkin
TWO POEMS
52
Louis Phillips
TWO POEMS
55
Peter Wild
FEBRUARY
58
Michael McPherson
TWO POEMS
59
Robert Parham
MAKING OUT BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
61
Bill Sharp
THE WAY IT BEGAN
72
Steven Goldsberry
ON THAT SAME BEACH BENEATH A FULL MOON
74
Joseph Balaz
TWO POEMS
76
Adele Dumaran
THE DEAD DONNA
79
Beth Cuthrell
AS THE DAY
91
Rob Wilson
AT THE FREDERIC INN
92
Nick Bozanic
THE FIRST TIME
94
Nicholas Kolumban
THERE WERE ALWAYS STARS
95
Lyn Lifshin
FEVER
97
Laureen Ching
Notes
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Number 18
Cover art by Lynne Fitzek
"The Backwater Poets, " copyright 1985 by Frank Stewart, first appeared in Mississippi Review, Fall1985. Hawaii Review is a student publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Subscriptions and manuscripts should be sent to Hawaii Review, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of English, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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ZDENEK KLUZAK editor in chief
MARGARET RUSSO managing editor
HOLLY YAMADA fiction editor
DEANHONMA poetry editor
CHARLES MILLER NANCY MOWER JILL WIDNER ROBERT YOUNG ALMA JILL DIZON staff
CONTENTS
FICTION WHAT THE IRONWOOD WHISPERED AN HONORABLE MAN CLEARING THE NEST NAGASAKI FRIENDS
1
Cedric Yamanaka
37 65 93
John J. McCann William Pitt Root Glenn Masuchika Jonathan London
106
POETRY TWO POEMS TWO POEMS THE HUSBAND COMES HOME FROM WORK FILINGS THE WEDDING FEAST TURNING STONES THE PEACOCK HACIENDA SPUMONI TWO POEMS SULFUR ANNIE'S LIST OF LAST THINGS
27 30 32
Michael McPherson Louis Phillips Rosemary Bensko
33 35 56 57 59 60 62 73 75
Angela Ball Lynn Domina Judith Kleck Diana Rivera Charles Edward Eaton Priscilla Atkins Eric Chock Juliet S . Kono Lyn Lifshin
TWO POEMS THREE POEMS NIGHT TRAIN TWO POEMS CANE FIRE DOJOJI DRIVING TOWARDS SLEEP KILLINGS BEST FRIEND, KILLED ON A RIG THREE POEMS INTER-ISLAND FLIGHT
76 78 83 85 88 92 97
Tony Quagliano M.A . Farrell Mary Crow Joseph Powell Fred Baysa Joseph Stanton Jack Driscoll
98 99
Michael Delp Roger Jones
101 105
Frank Stewart Reuben Tam
THE MAN WHO DRANK A THOUSAND BEERS OUTER ISLANDS
117
Mark Spencer
119
Jeff Worley
CONTRIBUTORS
125
REVIEWS
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Spring 1986
Number 19
Cover art by lmaikalani Kalahele
Hawaii Review is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawaii Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of fiction , poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (two issues) $6 .00; single copies, $3 .00. Hawati Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Amen'can Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmerican Periodical Verse. Š 1987 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093- 9625
Editors: Rodney Morales Margaret Russo Holly Yamada Zdenek Kluzak
Editor in Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Readers:
Jackie Kunning Roberta Young Nancy Mower Diana Moore Jill Widner
CONTENTS
FICTION JANUARY THAW THE ARTIST'S MODEL from 11-lE HERMIT jOURNALS THE INVISIBLE SNOWMAN
31 48
Karlton Keirn Lynn C. Miller Jack Driscoll
63
Cun Fukumoto
POETRY 1WOPOEMS TRAVELLER BODYSURFER COMING HOME SEPTEMBER AGAIN BUCKETS WHY WE NEED KITES OLD PAPERS OBER BIOGRAPHIEN (On Biographies)
1 3 4 6 8 10 20 21 24
1WOPOEMS AT A PARTY THE LOVE BOAT DESERT RAIN FORJONATHAN GRIFFIN
26 28 30 37 38
THE MOON MOON THAT MOMENT MATIHEW ARNOLD ON MARS
42 44 45
Norman Hindley Michael McPherson Mitchell LesCarbeau Wendy Wilder Larsen David James Michael Miller Steven Curry Erland Anderson Karl Krolow translated by Stuart Friebert Paul Ramsey Nicholas Kolumban Charles Edward Eaton Peter Gorham Jorge de Sena translated by Alexis Le11itin WingTekLum Susan Komo Debra Thomas
46
David Kirby
11
IV
47 53 54 56 57
Richard Raleigh Tony Friedson Joseph P. Balaz Leona Yamada Michael Darnay Among
58 59 69 71 72
Marjorie Sinclair John Unterecker T. M. Goto Meredith Carson Kathryn Takara
74
Lyn Lifshin
62 70
Laura Ruby Laura Ruby
HAWAI'I HAWAI'I
76
Tony Quagliano
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
78
MOUNTING SUSPICION JUMPING GALLEY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN SMOKE RINGS UNTITLED THE OLD WOMAN MEDITATES TWO POEMS INCISION FISH TWO POEMS I DIDN'T GET YOUR VIOLIN BACK TO YOU I'VE
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Number20
Cover an, "Menehune Watermelons;· by Santos Barbosa Poems in this issue by Robeno Juarroz , translated by W. S. Merwin, are from Sixth Vertical Poetry © by W. S. Merwin. Jose Lezama Lima's poems in this issue are from his book Fragmentos A Su !man, © 1977 by Heredoros de Jose Lezama Lima.
Hawaii Review is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawaii Review, Depanment of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of fiction, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (rwo issues) $6.00; single copies, $4.00. Hawaii Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmerican Pen"odical Verse.
© 1987 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625.
Editors: Rodney Morales Margaret Russo Holly Yamada Zdenek Kluzak
Editor in Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor
Readers: Kevin Kawamoto Jackie Kunning Diana Moore Nancy Mower Jeannie Thompson Roberta Young
CONTENTS
FICTION
1 18 40 59
from PROUD MONSTER THE FIFTI-1 RATIONALE BABY, BABY WHEN THE SNOW MELTS BELLYBUTTON THE GUEST THE PENITENT MAGDALENE
72
88 94
Ian MacMillan David Stroup Nora Cobb Gladys Pruitt Gary Kissick Jill Widner Jonathan Hall
POETRY TWO POEMS
10
TWO POEMS BIRD'S VIEW MAKUAKANE TWO POEMS TWO POEMS UNTERECKER'S GUAVAS FOUR POEMS
14 30 32 36 38 45 46
TWO POEMS BOYS AND FIREWORKS CENTERING LEGENDS APPROACHING BEQUIA WHEN I TURN OUT HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC TWO POEMS MOTHER, MOVING LATE IN THE SEASON
54 56 68 69 70
Jose Lezama Lima translated by joseph Chadwick Norman Hindley Kathryn Takara Haunani-Kay Trask Richard Hamasaki WingTek Lum Ed Parris Roberto Juarroz translated by W. S. Merwin Michael McPherson David Graham Kathleen Neuer Ted Lardner Richard Morris Dey
79 82 84 85
Joseph P. Balaz Louis Phillips Peter Desy Arthur Kimball
JV
THE LURE FLYING FISH THE FLAME SWALLOWER'S WOMAN
86 92
Jill Widner Kauraka Kauraka
93
Lyn Lifshin
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David Sheskin
ART
DRAGONSLAYER FLYING TOWARD ETERNITY TRIPLETS ELECTRIC CLAN
21 58 81
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
106
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Spring 1987
Number21
Cover photograph courtesy of The Hawaii Theatre. "In the Garden Late in the Day." ©Patricia Eakins , 1988. "One Day;' pen and ink drawing, © Faye Kicknosway, 1983 (Grey Wolf Press, 1983). "Monastery," "Winter Eel," and "Wood Butcher" are from Norman Hindley's
Winter Eel (Petronium Press, 1984), © Norman Hindley, 1984. Sophia Hindley's "At Aki's Mango Bar," pencil on matboard, was first published in Literary Arts Hawazi (Spring 1987), © Sophia Hindley, 1987.
Hawaii Review is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawati Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (two issues), $6.00; single copies, $4.00 . Advertising rates are available upon request. Hawaii Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmencan Periodzeal Verse. © 1988 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625.
Staff for this Issue Jeannie Thompson Margaret Russo Barbara Gearen Zdenek Kluzak Nancy Castle and Shirley Lee
Editor in Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Reviews and Essays Editors
Faculty Readers: Faye Kicknosway John Rieder Robert Shapard
CONTENTS
FICTION COLORS IN THE GARDEN LATE IN THE DAY PAINTING THE PIECES MYOL' MAN MOTHER DIVORCED BY THE DEVIL POETRY THREE POEMS A SHIP LIKE A WOMAN ISLAND UNTIL SUDDENLY ALONE IN MARRIAGE THE LAST YEAR CHRISTMAS EVE WINTER FIELDS: GETTING THROUGH YEARS OF BUZZARDS HITCHING TWO POEMS RAIN-IN-THE-FACE NAINOA GOINGSNAKE STUDY FOR THE LEFT HAND ALONE LOUNGE LIZARD INJUNCTION ON THE THOUGHT EVEN AFTER HAVING BEEN UP FOR ONE AND ONE HALF DAY SOLILOQUY IN WAIKIKI GUNMAN TWO POEMS
7
Sylvia Watanabe
21 36 40 54 63
Patricia Eakins Brady T. Brady Allan lzen Leona Yamada Ursule Molinaro
1 4 6 18 19 20 31
Reuben Tam Richard Morris Dey Paulette Roeske Jim Daniels Alan Seaburg Sanora Babb Guy Rotella
32 33 34 38
Edward C. Lynskey John Grey Doug Turner Leona Yamada
42
Linda Relacion Oosahwe
43 44
Louis Phillips Joseph P. Balaz
47 48 )0 )1
James A. Miller Rob Wilson Jill Widner Lyn Lifshin
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72
Michael McPherson CarolAnn Russell Tracy Morisaki Joseph Stanton Dean Honma Barbara Gearen Norman Hindley
REVIEW CONFESSIONS FROM MOLOKAI: THE MALE IMAGINATION in NORMAN HINDLEY'S WINTER EEL
80
Rob Wilson
ESSAY READING LARKIN: ''SOMETHING ALMOST BEING SAID"
94
Angela Ball
PHOTOGRAPH JANUARY 1941
49
The Hawaii Theatre
62 71
Faye Kicknosway Sophia Hindley
TWO POEMS NEW HAVEN A CAT ON THE WALL PARROTS IN AIEA TWO POEMS COLLECTED LETtERS THREE POEMS
56 58 59 60 66 68
ART
ONE DAY AT AKI'S MANGO BAR NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
104
Number22
Cover photograph by Marla Musick. "Mr. Charmer" Š 1988 by Laureen Kwock. The Hawaii Review editors would like to thank Alicia C. Davies and Marjorie Sinclair Edel for their generous support.
Hawaii Review is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawaii Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (two issues), $6.00; single copies, $4.00 . Advenising rates are available upon request. Hawaii Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Amencan Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmencan Penotlical Verse.
Š 1988 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625 .
Staff for this Issue Jeannie Thompson Margaret Russo Barbara Gearen Zdenek Kluzak Nancy Castle and Shirley Lee
Editor in Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Reviews and Essays Editors
CONTENTS
FICTION
ESTA NINA IRA AL CIELO THIS CHILD WILL GO TO HEAVEN MR. CHARMER TOES, THE REED, & MRS. THE REED PROOFS OF LOVE DRIVING ONE MORNING IN APRIL
1
Rodolfo Torres
4 27
translation by Sesshu Foster Laureen Kwock
36 47 66 74
Floyd Skloot Sandra Nelson Charles Kuschinslci Brady T. Brady
7 8
Tony Quagliano Jonathan London
14 17 18
Donnell Hunter Kathleen Andrasick David James
20 22 24 26
Leona Yamada Meredith S. Carson Gethsemane Swann J. Kates
32
Robert F. Whisler
33 34 42 43
Stuart Friebert Robert Funge Judith Slcillman R. T. Smith
POETRY
RECOLLECTIONS OF A COOT THREE POEMS THE YEAR OF THE BROTHERS DISHWASHER FEARS THE AIR YOU LEFT BEHIND MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SUMMER: MAPLE LEAVES BROUGHT TO HAWAII TWO POEMS A CYMICAL MARRIAGE DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY TURNING WITHOUT A SIGNAL I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND YOU TWO POEMS WEEPING FIG THIS INVASION
IV
SURVIVING THE SEDUCTION OF NATURE'S BEAUTY EVOLUTION 1WOPOEMS SANCTUARY ·1WOPOEMS 1WOPOEMS 1WOPOEMS THE VILLAGE CONSTABLE DUBLIN REVISITED GOSSIPY POEM AFFINITY WITH SEASON AS SURE AS CELEBRATION SUNRISE 1WOPOEMS A TRUE STORY 1WOPOEMS
44 46 50 52 53 56 59 62 63 64 70 71 73 75 82 84
Robert Bowie Greg Boyd Norma Gorst Jay Griswold Robert R. Ward Susan Kelly-DeWitt Maurya Simon John Woods T. S. Kerrigan David Ray T. M. Goto Ralph Salisbury J. J. McKenna James Gurley Robert Wexelblatt Douglas Stanton Louis Phillips
86
T. M. Goto
PROPERTY AND FANTASY IN THE AMERICAN BACKYARD
95
Howard Wolf
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
102
72
REVIEW CADENA DE AMOR: A REVIEW OF THE PAPER 'S FAREWELL ISSUE , " NIGHT SUITES"
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Issue 23
Vol. 12, No. 1
Cai Qi-Jiao's poem, "The Pearl," was published in the original Chinese in Highlights of Chinese New Poetry: 1950- 1980, ed. Xie Man (Beijing: People's Literary Press, 1985 ). Adele Dumaran's "The World is a Wedding" was first published in The Poet Lore (Spring 1987). Michael McPherson's "A.]. W. Mackenzie & Son, 29 Miles Volcano" was first published in Exquisite Corpse, Vol. 1-4 Oanuary-April1988). "Waiting" and "The Silence Overriding" © 1988 by Phyllis Hoge Thompson.
Hawaii Review is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawaii Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 . The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction , interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (two issues), $6.00; single copies, $4.00. Advertising rates are available upon request. Hawaii Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Amen·can Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmencan Penodtcal Verse.
© 1988 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625.
Staff for this Issue Jeannie Thompson Margaret Russo Barbara Gearen Zdenek Kluzak Shirley Lee & Nancy Castle
Editor in Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Reviews and Essays Editor
Readers Tino Ramirez
CONTENTS
FICTION
22 39 59 82 111
PIETA SHORT TIMERS FINAL WEEKS WHEN BONNIE CROSSED KILLER
B. R. Leith John W. White Nancy Zafris Nancy Lord Maria Mitchell Hayes
POETRY
TWO POEMS TWO POEMS WOODCHUCK IN PRAISE OF GRANDMA'S PANTRY SEPTEMBER SEQUENCE HARTFIELD FOUR POEMS ON GEffiNG UNSTUCK DOUBLE KILL STILL LIFE OVERLOOKING LAKE MICHIGAN ON THE VERANDA WHY AEROGRAMS ARE ALWAYS BLUE PARAVION THREE POEMS TWO POEMS PEARLS TWO POEMS VANITIES TWO POEMS SAFFRON: CROCUS SATIVUS
1 4 6 8 9 17 18 29 30
Fredrick Zydek Marjorie Power James Hazen Michael McPherson G. E. Murray Joseph I. Tsujimoto
32 33
Priscilla Atkins Mark Wallace
34 35 36 52 54 56
Lyn Lifshin John N. Miller Reuben Tam E. G. Burrows Juliet S. Kono Norman Hindley L. L. Harper Chris Hindley Naomi Rachel
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78 80 lV
Adele Dumaran David Moolten Nick Bozanic
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THE PEARL KOKKARI TWO POEMS TilE APOTHECARY'S GRAVE TO MICHAEL HALAWA FALLS THREE POEMS TWO POEMS THREE POEMS A LEARNED GESTURE JUST CALL ME NERO ESSAYS FOOD AS AN EXPRESSION OF CUL1URAL IDENTITY IN JADE SNOW WONG AND SONGS FOR]ARDINA WEIGHING ANCHOR: POST MODERNJOURNEYSFROM THE LIFE-WORLD CLASS AND POWER: FOUCAULT'S CRITIQUE OF MARXISM NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
92 94 97 98 100 102 106 116 119 120
Cai Qi-jiao translated by Edwin Morin and Dennis Ding Jeff Worley Frances Fagerlund Mitchell Clute Gladys Pruitt Kathryn Takara Richard Morris Dey Phyllis Hoge Thompson Nicholas Kolumban Jeff Schiff Joseph P. Balaz
12
Nora Cobb
122
Michael J. Shapiro
143
John Rieder
90 91
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Vol. 12, No. 2
Cover photograph of Honolulu historic landmark the Toyo Theatre, shortly before its demolition, by Margaret Russo/Eighth Floor. "The Road To Kawaikoi," © Marsha Erickson, 1988.
Hawazi· Re11iew is a semi-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawaii Re11iew, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (two issues), $6.00; single copies, $4.00. A.dvenising rates are available upon request.
Hawati"Re11iew, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index and by the Index ofAmerican Periodical "Verse. © 1988 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625 .
Staff for this Issue Jeannie Thompson Margaret Russo Barbara Gearen Zdenek Kluzak Shirley Lee
Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Reviews and Essays Editor
Special Thanks to: Joe Chadwick Sidney Higa James Kastely Angela Lee Catherine Mau Charles Miller Meena Sachdeva
CONTENTS
FICTION PERKA'S CORN MASH
1
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
16
Victoria Emery lsi Place-Editors' Award
Carol K. Howell 2nd Place-Editors' Award
45
FALLING BODIES MY FRIEND KAMMY A PARTY FOR GUS MAX
61
92 124
Leonard Goodman GaryPak Dellzell Chenoweth Nancy Alpert Mower
POETRY TWO POEMS THREE POEMS WHAT NANCY SAID GOLD CIRCULAR MOTION THREE POEMS THREE POEMS THREE POEMS THE SWALLOWS A SNOW SPARROW THE ORIGINAL MARINERS MAGNOLIAS & MEMORIES THREEPOEMSFORTERRI THOUGHTSOFTHE OVALTINE FACTORY DURING A MOMENT OF HYSTERIA ANYTING YOU KILL YOU GADA EAT GENTIANS
12 14 25 28 31 37 38 39 40 42
Louis Phillips Leona Yamada Jeanne Kawelolani Kinney Roger Jones Mindy H. Kronenberg Marjorie Sinclair Curt Fukumoto John Unterecker Jay Griswold B. Z. Niditch Susan Kraus Kathryn Takara John Charlot
43
Kenneth Pobo
44
Joseph P. Balaz Donnell Hunter
5 7 11
51 lV
THE ROAD TO KAWAIKOI ABOVE MALPASO CREEK THE BUTTER FESTIVAL OFCHONI APPLESAUCE! WORST FLOOD IN FORTY YEARS HEAVEN THE GYPSUM MINES CLAIMS PEARL I SEE YOU RESCUE IN DOG TONGUE CATCHING YOUR DEATH 'NALO CHICKEN FIGHT VARIATIONS OF INFERRED WAR THEMES FROM THE KUMUIJPO AND MO 'OLELO HAWAI'I HAIKU TWO POEMS ON THE SALUTARY EFFECT OF COFFEE (GOOD SUCH) AND OTHER CERTAIN CULTURAL DIGRESSIONS ONE LANAI AT THE HALFMOON STARS SLEEP ON CHE]U ISLAND THREE POEMS THREE POEMS TWO POEMS
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52 54
Marsha Erickson Sanora Babb
56 57
RobenWarth Alan Seaburg
58 59 60 74 75 76 78 80
StephenJarrell Williams Peter Wild Roben VanderMolen Pauick B. Mikulec C. F. Barnes Nathan Whiting M. Truman Cooper BrianKhaw
82 89 90
Leialoha Apo Perkins Edmund Conti Michael McPherson
105
]. A. Miller
109
T. M. Goto
110 112 115 119
Nora Mitchell William Stafford Reuben Tam Jim Kraus
COMMUNION THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST TRADITIONAL JAPANESE PROVERBS ON LONG POETRY READINGS
123 134
Randy Brieger Pat Matsueda
135
Tony Friedson
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
136
AUTIIORS' INDEX
141
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Vol. 13, No. 1
PARADISE NOW
Cover photograph , "Makapuu Lighthouse" by David R. Schrichte. Illustrations by Amy K. Williams.
Hawai'i Review logo redesign by Guy Gokan. Anne Misawa's "The Anatomy of Air" was first published in Brouhaha, No. 8 Oune 1988). Fred Baysa's "A Study of Protea in a Basket under White Light" first appeared in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on April20, 1987.
Hawai'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content . Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawai'i Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road , Honolulu , Hawaii 96822 . The editors invite submissions of an, drama, fiction , interviews, poetry, uanslations, reviews and literary essays. scripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Su rates: one year (three issues), $10.00; single copies, $4.00. Advertising rates available upon request. Hawai'i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, indexed by the American Humanities Index, the Index of American rr.T~·, 1Ul£.a.l Verse, and Writer's Market.
© 1989 by the Board of Publications , University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN 0093- 9625 .
Staff for this Issue Dellzell Chenoweth Puanani Fernandez-Akamine Kelly Ellis Nguyen T. M. Goto Russell Medeiros
Editor-In-Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Nonfiction Editor
Special Thanks to: Joe Chadwick Doris Ching Vallaurie Crawford James Kastely Joseph Kau Ian MacMillan Elizabeth McCutcheon Paul Pinkosh Margaret Russo Roben Shapard Michael Simpson Frank Stewan Jeannie Thompson
CONTENTS
FICTION FOUR STORIES THE SUITOR THE SQUATIER WORRY PATIERNS OF GEOME1RY REUNION LUNCH THE AMPERSAND OF BEUlAH LAND DADDY JAMISON'S MEAN PIT BUlL SHE WANTED JUSTICE
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Ursule Molinaro Sanford Goldstein
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Tom Ha.zuka
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Daniel Panger Lanning Lee
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POETRY THE DESERT POEM THE RENAISSANCE WHALES WAIIdld KID STANDING OUTSIDE BERETANIA FOlliES TWO POEMS Bundas MY DOG BUNDAS
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ARMENIAN MOTHER THE DESERT MAKER 45 IN A DRY SEASON THREE POEMS DEAR ADOLF TRAVELLING SNOW
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Anne Misawa Ronald L. Johnson Stuart Ching
Ursule Molinaro Jesse McCarty Haunani-Kay Trask Mahealani Ing Joseph P. Balaz Janos Olah translated by Nicholas Kolumban Jack Shadoian Paul Ramsey Rebecca Lee Goldie Chenoweth A. M. Friedson Rob Wilson Mark Osaki
A STUDY OF PROTEA IN A BASKET UNDER WHITE LIGHT WE CALL YOU OUR CHILD: HIROSHIMA MAIDENS 1Y COBB BLOODS PORT CERTAIN WORDS HOW TO END A CONVERSATION (METHOD #33) AFTERNOONS IN THE BLUE RAIN, RAVENA FIERCE MEADOWS MASTURBATION A WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN
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Fred 0 . Baysa
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Daniel James Sundahl Parke Muth Alex Argyros Julia Thomas
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Robert Payne
106 107 108
Lyn Lifshin Tony Quagliano Joseph Gillespie
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Kelly Romero
ON LOOKING AT AN X-RAY OF MY DAUGHTER'S SKULL GODMOTHER TWO POEMS NADAL ALL SOULS
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Mitchell LesCarbeau Leona Yamada Kathryn Waddell-Takara Bronislaw Maj uanslated by Daniel Bourne
NONFICTION GAUGING THE SPEED OF DARKNESS
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James R. Harstad
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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THE HAWAI'/ REVIEW EDITORS DEDICATE TillS ISSUE TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN UNTERECKER.
. . . heavy persecution shall arise On all who in the worship persevere Ofspin't and truth ... then raise From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, New heavens, new earth, ages ofendless date Founded in nghteousness andpeace and love, To bn'ng forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII,lines 547-551.
PARADISE NOW equals the capacity of a single human being to nurture ; it declares that nothing is lost if we refuse to submit our dignity.
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WHITEBREAD
Vol. 13, No. 2
Cover art by Martin Charlot. by Amy K. Conners. i Review logo redesign by Guy Gokan. Somono's essay, "Bagwis," was first published in journal of the Women's Group, Wai'anae Coast(Fall1987). "'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be to Hawai'i Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, , fiction , interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manumust be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription one year (three issues), $10.00; single copies, $4.00. Advertising rates are ble upon request. Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is by the American Humanities Index, the Index of American Pen"odical , and Wn"ter's Market. University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN:
Staff for this Issue Dellzell Chenoweth Amy K . Conners Kelly Ellis Nguyen T. M. Goto Russell Medeiros Paige N. Donner
Editor-In-Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Co-Nonfiction Editors
Special Thanks to: Nell Altizer Lizabeth Ball Wes Calvert Steven Curry Willis Dunne Puanani Fernandez-Akamine Christine Froechtenigt Dana Naone Hall Craig Howes Kii Susan Kahakalau Lilikala Kame' eleihiwa Joseph Kau Sonia Khatchadourian Zdenek Kluzak Michael Marceil
Elizabeth McCutcheon Rodney Morales EshaNeogy Margaret Russo Todd Sammons Roben Shapard Michael Simpson Frank Stewart David Stroup Dorothy Tamura Jeannie Thompson Haunani-Kay Trask Rob Wilson Leona Yamada
CONTENTS
FICTION Philip Shiva Damon Willis Oshiro Valerie Wieland Ruth Mclaughlin Kristopher Saknussemm
THE DREAM STONE BAD COOKIES THE OLDEST GENERATION SOMETHING LIKE GOD ON DUTY A LITTI.E SEASON THE LITTI.E WITNESS CHEER THE TRYST I MAKE ENOUGH BROKEN ICE SHELLS IN THE NUDE
2 14 16 21 33 34 36 38 43 56 71 82 94
AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK A FUNNY THING FLIGHT
99 107 120
Sussy Chako Robert Welshons Harry V. Vinters Dirk van Nouhuys Kevin Phelan and Bill U'Ren Martin B. Sherman Bruce Douglas Reeves Debbie Lee Wesselmann
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Jay A. Blumenthal Robert Funge
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Paul N . Silas
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Greg German D . Castleman
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Mary Eiser
POETRY
THE LAST GREAT AGE OF BREAKFAST FATHER AND SON PIECES OF NIGHT, POEMS FROM PRISON #35 THE LIMESTONE COWBOY SEES GOD , AND IT'S A WOMAN EPITAPH I DREAM ABOUT MARRIAGE, AFTER THE FIGHT
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Priscilla Atkins
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Marcia Womongold Masami Usui Matt Duarte Dion Farquhar
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Lyn Lifshin
64 66 69 70 91
Eve Shelnutt Doug Turner K. Coughlin Lyn Lifshin Ronald Smits
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Fritz Hamilton
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Susan Ashbury
118 135 136
Louis Phillips Michael Simpson Kathryn Takara
Nonfiction by PROUD MONSTER: A SEARCH FOR HUMANITY BAGWIS
138 144
Brien Hallett Celeste Somono
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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CORNFLOWER WOMONGOLD'S COSMIC ALPHABET TWO POEMS MIKE TYSON EMPIRE STATE HE'D RATHER HAVE A PAPER DOLL SHE SAID WHERE ARE THE OLD FATES? TWO POEMS OARSWOMAN AFTER THE WAR THE WHALE ROCKS WHEN IT'S RAINING DOGS & ... WHEN WE WALKED PAST THE DeANDREA SOME SOURCES OF THE CHINESE TRADITION HAPPY NEW YEAR ELEGY
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· Vol. 13, No. 3
ALOHA 'AINA The Native Hawaiian Issue
Cover an by 'Imaikalani Kalahele.
Hawai'iReview logo redesign by Guy Gokan. Joseph P. Salaz's "No Moking" was a winner in the first annual Poetry on THE BUS contest in 1985, and was published in its earlier version as a display placud which appeared on public transit buses of the City and County of Honolulu. Dana Naone Hall's "The House of Light" was first published in Poetry HafiHiii, Frank Stewan and John Unterecker (eds.), Honolulu : The University Press eX Hawai'i, 1979. Michael McPherson's "The Green Flash" and "To My Brother in SanJuan" wm published in Singing With The Owls, Honolulu : Petronium Press, 1982. Wayne Westlake's "Dogo" and "Flawed Intelligence" first appeared in RamrotiS (1984) .
Hawai'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawai' i at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should addressed to Hawai'i Review, Depanment of English, University ofHawai'i, 1 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 . The editors invite submissions of drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. scripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. rates: one year (three issues), $10.00 ; single copies, $4.00. Advertising rates available upon request. Hawai'i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, indexed by the Amencan Humanities Index, the Index of Amencan l:'el.,¡l11111.~ Verse, and Writer's Market.
Š 1989 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. 0093- 9625 .
Staff for this Issue Dellzell Chenoweth Amy K. Conners Puanani Fernandez-Akamine Kelly Ellis Nguyen T. M. Goto Paige N . Donner
Editor-In-Chief Co-Managing Editors Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Nonfiction Editor
Advisory Board: Joseph P. Balaz* Dana Naone Hall* Richard Hamasaki
Rodney Morales Michael Simpson Kathryn Takara
*Native Hawaiian, works selected by Staff included in this issue
Special Thanks to: Kalama Akamine LeRoy Akamine WesCalven Zohmah Charlot Eric Chock Philip Damon Willis Dunne Antoinette Konia Freitas Christine Froechtenigt 'Ekela Kani'aupi'o Joseph Kau
Charlie Kupa DarrellLum Mari Matsuoka Paul Pinkosh Tony Quagliano Margaret Russo Alben]. Simone Mei-Li Siy Frank Stewart Dorothy Tamura Jeannie Thompson
CONTENTS
FICTION THE 'ULUPALAKUA MEN POHAKU'S DREAM THIRTY CAUBRE DIGGING FOR L01US ROOTS LEGENDS
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Leialoha Apo Perkins P. Delos Santos Adam Campbell
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Kathleen Ngit Jun Young Brenda Pualani Santos
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POETRY
KEAUHOU (SONG OF RENEWAL) THE HOUSE OF UGHT ONE LONG BLAST THREE CONCRETE POEMS lWO POEMS '0 KAHO 'OLAWE I KA MALlE TWO POEMS TWO CONCRETE POEMS HAKIOAWA BAY THE BRAND NEW DAY KA WAI 0 KULANIHAKO 'I TWO POEMS KA'ILI PAU TWO POEMS AND ART TWO POEMS
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Mahealani Ing Dana Naone Hall Chris K. Taniguchi Joseph P. Balaz Ho'oipo DeCambra
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Ko Kahakalau Chauncey Caner Wayne Westlake Phyllis Coochie Cayan Les Awana Kalina Aloha Tamara Wong-Morrison John Dominis Holt 'Imaikalani Kal1hele Michael McPherson
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Jonah Hau'oli Akaka
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David M. Kupele and Puanani Kini
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OLI MANOA SONG THE LARRY CHING SWING
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NONFICTION THE REVITALIZATION OF THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE "HAWAIIAN" VS . "KANAKA MAOLI " AS METAPHORS
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Larry L. Kimura
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Kekuni Blaisdell
LION OF 1BE PACIFIC)
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Keith Keeaumoku Mews
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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KA LIONA HAE 0, KA PAKIPIKA (THE ROARING
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MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR JOHN 1V AIHEE
I am very pleased to extend my congratulations and best wishes to the staff, contributors and readers of Hawai' i Review on the occasion of its special "Aloha Aina" issue, exclusively featurmg works by writers of Hawaiian ancestry. The Review is a distinguished publication which brings the best of contemporary-rsland literature to University of Hawaii students and subscribers from around the world. It is a mark of the publication's cultural sensitivity that it should showcase the works of writers in Hawaiian and English who spring from the original people of the islands. The "Aloha Aina" issue will be a collector's item and an outstanding example of the talent which resides in the native-born of Hawaii. I applaud the inspiration that conceived it and commend its authors and publishers on their appreciation of the unique contribution of the people of the land.
JOHN WAIHEE
Winter 1989/ 90
Issue 28
Vol. 14, No. 1
Cover Art, "After Day," by Takeo Miji Cover Design by Elizabeth Lovell Devarati Mitra's "Flowers Born Blind" was first published in Nija Hate, Nijaswa Bhashay (In Our Own Hands, Our Own Language). Calcutta: Anada Publishers Private Limited, 1984; "Amnesiac River" first appeared in Bengali in SANGBED, June-July 1986; "No, No, and No" was first published in Bengali in DESH (THE NATION), Anada Bazar Patrika, Ltd., 1987; and "The Green Stigma" was published in ]ubaker Snan (The Young Man 's Bath). Calcutta: Anada Publisher Private Limited, 1978. Hawai'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawai'i Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (three issues), $12.00; two years (six issues), $20.00; single copies, $5.00. Advertising rates are available upon request. Hawai'i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse , and Writer's Market.
Š 1990 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625.
Staff Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor Poetry Editor Non-Fiction Editor
Elizabeth Lovell Wendy H. T. Chen Stewart Anderson John Gesang Paige Aranda
Special Thanks to: Jeannie Thomson Robbie Shapard John McDermott T. M. Goto Eric Folk Don Dougal Wes Calvert Stefan Baciu
Contents Glittering Sea White, Gray and Rinse Dream Scales Molecular Lung The Mercy Winds The News The Summer After the Summer of Love Chanticleer The Camera The Bomb Document Quo Vadis7 Concurrence Closed to the Natural World How? Alphabet House Snake Study of Repose Islands Zen Garden Reflections at Honneken Castle The Woman Who Wanted Two The Man, the Woman and the Other Man Movie Fireflies Heaven Apple Pie Paintings Mantis Dutch The Burying Alive of Mason Taylor
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Robert Wintner Nathan Whiting
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Tony Quagliano Peter Robinson
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Scott Lasser Dan johnson
Mark Grimes Melissa Pritchard Marin Sorescu
Robert Kusch David Luisi Paul Kennedy Mueller Cory Wade
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Guy Capecelatro III
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Daniel Panger
Charlotte Gould Warren joe Tsujimoto Curt Hagen
First Will and Testament Baby Key in the Mechanical Forest Living Room in the Park Untitled Flowers Born Blind Amnesiac River No, No, and No The Green Stigma The First to Go PatandJoe Fowl Play Miss You Blue From the Air One of the Boys Ice Lake Three Poems Holy Orders Comedy with Gulkis: A Craft Interview Hearing a Poem the First Time Yellowstone Sand Poem Season Tickets Nightmare: Afterwards The Rose Garden Joseph of Nazareth The Career of Mungo Park Raven Considers Great Books Complacent Fervor: The Confused Role of the Critical Theorist in America Contributor's Notes
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Mark Taksa T. M . Goto Devarati Mitra
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/. Thomson Gregg Shapiro
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Edith Goldenhar
115 126
Patrick B. Mikulec Kenneth Frost A. M. Friedson
Michael Barrett Marjorie Power
David Starkey Donnell Hunter
Thomas F. Lannin, /r.
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Vol. 14, No. 2
Cover Design by Shane Kaneshiro Lillian Robinson's "What Culture Should Mean" was published in The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. (September 25, 1989). Student subscription rate: $24.00/ year (47 issues). Send check to The Nation , Box P-2, 72 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10011 Hawai'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. Correspondence and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawai'i Review, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, fiction, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Subscription rates: one year (three issues), $12.00; two years (six issues), $20 .00; single copies, $5.00. Advertising rates are available upon reques!. Hawai'i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, and Writers Market.
Š 1990 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at Manoa. ISSN: 0093-9625.
Staff Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Fiction Editor
Elizabeth Lovell Priscilla Billig Stewart G . W. Anderson
Poetry Editor Non-Fiction Editors
John Gesang Paige Aranda Tracy Ellig
Thanks to: Wes Calvert Eric Folk Ian MacMillan John McDermott Jim Reis Cathy Song
Contents What Culture Should Mean Miriam On Unrequited Love When I Think . .. By Now Of Course You Will Have Heard Alligator And Then, Her Mother's Dresses Torn Out of the Closet Scrapbook Roadkill The Cinderella Theme My High Heels Patience Croakers Drought The Long Grief The Tandem None Are Madder The Brides Winter Palace Tour Terrace View Polaris An Invitation Wirephoto Passing Through the Papago Reservation Yielding Lament The Subtlest and Liveliest of Bodies Loss Fatal Response Yellow Backstreets
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Lillian Robinson
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Douglas Michael Massing
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12 14 16 17 18 20 27 28 29 30 31 39 40 40 41 42 42
Carole Bernstein Martha Vertreace Donna Salli Helen Pilibosian Kim Edwards Jeff Schiff Lynn Domina judith Hiott George Smyth ]ames Doyle Gregory A. Ryan William John Watkins
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Marjorie Power Eric Ho rsting
46 55 62 63 67
Steven Goldsberry Luiz Vilela A. M. Friedson Rafael Alberti Jeffery Allen
' Tattoos, Suit Changing The Wash House The Broker Finding Your Job Dream People Prayer Before Killing a Doe Studies Duende The Unclaimed Corpse Jack-o'-Lantern Fifth Grade Famine in Valhalla Levitation On Contemplating My Wife's Bed Holding Pattern Deconstructions When I Feel Your Soul, I Reach for You with These Arms Basically Troubled in the Heat Artificial Intelligence Afflatus Check-Out Counter Vignettes Untitled Untitled Healing Act I Round Up Treatise Untitled To the Reader Contributor's Notes
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Mark Taksa Pamela Walker
Donnell Hunter David Chorlton Jay Griswold Leona Yamada Ian MacMillan Carl Phillips
Jay A. Blumenthal Michael J. Bugeja Edward Kleinschmidt Charles Edward Eaton Miko Suzuki Simon Perchik David Sumner D . N. Baldwin
Casey Finch
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Issue 30
Vol. 14, No. 3
Cover Art, "Moonlight Maiden," by S . Naomi Tome Frontispiece, "Maui Surfing," by Dietrich Varez "Saint Erkenwald" is from The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet, translated by Casey Finch. Copyright by the University of Press. Used by permission.
Hawai'i Review is a tri-annual publication of the Board of University of Hawaii at Manoa. It reflects only the views of its and writers, who are solely responsible for its content. and subscriptions should be addressed to Hawai'i Review, of English, University of Hawaii, 1733 Donaghho Road, Hawaii 96822. The editors invite submissions of art, drama, interviews, poetry, translations, reviews and literary essays. scripts must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed Pn'vPtâ&#x20AC;˘ODI Subscription rates: one year (three issues), $12.00; two years issues), $20.00; single copies, $5.00. Advertising rates are upon request. Hawai'i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Magazines, is indexed by the American Humanities Index, the Inde;r American Periodical Verse, and Writers Market.
Š 1990 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaii at ISSN : 0093-9625.
Staff Elizabeth Lovell Priscilla Billig Stewart G. W. Anderson John Gesang Tracy Ellig
Special Thanks to: Paige Aranda Eric Folk Patti Killelea-Almonte Manoa John McDermott Jim Reis Cathy Song Meg Sutton Jeannie Thompson
Contents Pit Blind Love, Hate: The Life We Learn Thaw I'm scared of shampoo Jimmy Keenan The Girl from Morbisch The Timekeeper The Hours The-Crossing of Legs Don't Get A Gun, Get a Big Dog Sky Class Untitled Sam Pigeons Because The Fire Caught Calling Up Excitement Extensions The Morning Paper His Royal Highness The Poem Called Liver Essays in Divinity Saint Erkenwald Untitled The Iliad Ethics and the Courtly Lady The Bat's Rebellion The Celtic Cross Jaliscan Sestina
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Randall A. Watson ]ames Doyle Kristopher Saknussemm
S. Naomi Tome Miriam Levine Jeff Schiff Carole Bernstein Edward Kleinschmidt ]ames A. Miller Jeff Worley Robert Huber David Lunde Richard Alan Bunch Anonymous S. Naomi Tome Casey Finch William Burgwinkle David Chorlton Martha Vertreace
May Nineteenth October in Glimpses The Clay Pot Season of Fire Monday After School Coming From School Ballpoint Paper Untitled Wishes I've Got a Warm Middle Spot Achromatic Sketches Feh The Two Who Jumped Maybe This Story's About Dogs Working For American Motors The North Road The Hotel Arawak Aboard the Friendship Rose, Bequia Channel Sailing The Collection Blue Dancers Words and the Lighted Blanket Blue Benina Telescoped Astronomy Lesson Nemesis Genesis A Clown's Clown Contributor's Notes
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Marjorie Power
Janet Steele Lois-Ann Yamanaka Thomas Kretz Mira Ku5 Miko Suzuki
Randy Brieger Sandra Nelson Richard Morris Dey
Naomi Clark S. Naomi Tome Charles Edward Eaton Mark Taksa Rafael Alberti A. M. Friedson Carol Hamilton A skold Melnyczuk Jay A. Blumenthal Martin Sherman
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© 2011 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaiÿi at Mänoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and artists. Printed in the Republic of Korea. ISSN: 0093-9625
Aloha Readers,
The Hawaiÿi Review Editors hope the issue you hold in your hands will take you places. These places may seem familiar, strange, or maybe both all at once. HR’s unique geographic location at the center of the Pacific has allowed for a variety of perspectives to be expressed within its pages for over 35 years. Place, as a theme seems inescapable, tethered to what we do, and rests at the center of this journal once again. The ways that place can define or not define ourselves, our perceptions, or our beliefs make it a tricky subject matter to define or categorize. But that’s what literature is for, and we think the authors in these pages capture the outer and inner tendrils of these realities, whatever and wherever they may be. Look forward to dining in the desert, cataloguing leaves with Marlon Brando, short histories of perennial places, deadly one-night stands, the intricacies of settling down with the right one, a longgone but not forgotten way of Hawaiian life, and much, much more. Happy reading.
Mälama, The Editors of Hawaiÿi Review
The Raid Kathleen Boyle A True Account Of Talking To Marlon Brando Craig Cotter Listening To Heads And Studying The Effects Greg Evason Clay Bodies Lowell Jaeger Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t and Hollywood John McKernan Mangroves Of The Sierpe Joseph Sacksteder A Short History Of Karachi Faisal Siddiqui #5, #8, #9, #17 Jade Sunouchi Starting Again and The Table Of Contents David Wagoner There, Shadows Plough Fallen Eyelashes, The Cow Cuddled The Calf, A Cannonade Shot Out Underfoot Like A Deck, An Elk Lifts A Cross Of Branching Antlers, and Animals Put On Their Shoes In Snowy Tracks Mikhail Yeryomin, translated by J. Kates
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Hawai’i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai’i at Mänoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawaiÿi Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Administrative and Technical Support Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sammy Khamis, Brandon Panoke, Nick Webster, the U.H. English Department, and U.H.M. Board of Publications. Subsriptions If you enjoy our magazine, please subscribe. Rates: one year (1 regular issue and 1 double issue)-$20; two years (4 issues)-$30; sample copies-$10 each. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate; if you’d like your books mailed first-class, please add $5 to the subcription price. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai’i Review, c/o Board of Publications, University of Hawai’i, PO Box 11674, Honolulu, HI 96828. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit www.hawaiireview.org for more information.
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HawaiĂżi Review 74
Spring 2011
© 2011 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaiÿi at Mänoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and artists. ISSN: 0093-9625
Dear Reader, Please join us in welcoming this lastest issue of Hawaiÿi Review into the world and into your hands. A year ago, we celebrated this journal’s 35th year of publication by revisiting some of Hawaiÿi Review’s most prolific contributors: Haunani-Kay Trask, Margaret Atwood, Eric Chock, David Lum, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Gary Snyder, W.S. Merwin, and R. Zamora Linmark to name but a few. It’s amazing to sit in our tiny office and look back at how much this little literary machine has accomplished in the middle of the Pacific. Hereÿs to another 35 years and more! We also re-established a writing contest, named after another great contributor, author, teacher, and mentor--Ian MacMillan. This issue has proudly published the winners of our 2011 Ian MacMillan Writing Prize for both poetry and fiction. Congratulations to all who won and mahalo nui to everyone who entered the contest. It was exciting to see our email and mail boxes flooded with so many entries. We were honored to read every entry. Hawaiÿi Review would also like to thank authors Alexei Melnick and Brian Christian for their manaÿo and generosity in taking the time to help judge the contest. Special thanks must go out to our Editorial Advisor Jay Hartwell for his keen sense of small and large ideas. On behalf of the Hawaiÿi Review ÿohana, mahalo for your continued readership, support, and interest in our pages. Happy Reading! The Editors of Hawaiÿi Review
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2011 Ian MacMillan Award Winners for Fiction Rita Ariyoshi Oh, Bull {7} Tyler McMahon Feel This {23} Craig Santos Perez Noland {39) 2011 Ian MacMillan Award Winners for Poetry Mark Thiel 2 Poems for Nuÿuanu Valley {57} A. Molotkov Being {59} Craig Santos Perez Shoplifting Vienna Sausage {60} Poetry Corey Wakeling {66} In Reply to Another Lionÿs Den Town of Carpentry Horror Not Given To The Handshakes Considering the Use of Ellipses Like Dad or Celine But Think Better of it This Blue Morning The Broken Ferris The Sphinx’s Missing Nose Roberta Winters {75} Preservatives Jamison Crabtree {80} this crown weaved of shrapnel that we call the moon Lament for Gort Lament for the Body Snatchers Nandini Dhar {93} Bildungsroman
Contents Kathryn Elisa Ionata {101} Breakdown Joan Kincaid {102} Stimulus II Blue Invasions III Lyn Lifshin {104} Mint Leaves at Yaddo Taking My Mother to the Bathroom Jay Stuart Silverman {107} Nustile Martin Ott {108} Dictator Madison Caine Brittingham {110} Three Nudes Fiction Janelle Brin {113} The Problem with Genre Meg Tuite {115} Holiday Inn in the Holidome Nathan Graziano {121} The Wild Men Elahzar Rao {133} Coming of a Stranger
2011 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards for Fiction 1st Prize Rita Ariyoshi Oh, Bull 2nd Prize Tyler McMahon Feel This 3rd Prize Craig Santos Perez Noland
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Editor-in-Chief Donovan Colleps Assistant Editor Jane Callahan Poetry Editor Jaimie Gusman Copy Editors Maria Kanai Kelsey Inouye
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Hawai’i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai’i at Mänoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawaiÿi Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Administrative and Technical Support Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sammy Khamis, Brandon Panoke, Nick Webster, the U.H. English Department, and U.H.M. Board of Publications. Subscriptions If you enjoy our magazine, please subscribe. Rates: one year (1 regular issue and 1 double issue)-$20; two years (4 issues)-$30; sample copies-$10 each. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate; if you’d like your books mailed first-class, please add $5 to the subcription price. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai’i Review, c/o Board of Publications, University of Hawai’i, PO Box 11674, Honolulu, HI 96828. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit www.hawaiireview.org for more information. © 2011 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaiÿi at Mänoa. All rights reserved to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and artists.
Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Review 75 Winter 2011
Cover Art Front: hyBRIDGE #16, by Peter Chamberlain Back: hyBRIDGE #1, by Peter Chamberlain
© 2011 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawai`i at Mänoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and the artist. ISSN: 0093-9625
Dear Reader,
Creating Issue 75 of Hawai`i Review has been, of course, a labor of love. Our journal has seen many changes in its almost 40 years of publication – changes in leadership, in focus, in readership, and in vision. With each new change comes a re-dedication to producing an innovative, community-focused journal that speaks from the heart of Hawai`i. One aspect of the journal that has happily continued is a second year of the Ian MacMillan Writing Contest. Named after one of Hawai`i Review’s most influential mentors and advocates, The Ian MacMillan Writing Contest awards prizes for both poetry and fiction. Please look for this year’s winners in our next edition of the journal, Issue 76. Mahalo to all who submitted their work for consideration this year. This issue of Hawai`i Review centers (or perhaps decenters) around change. The characters and landscapes in the literature of Issue 75 explore their relationship to change – lives in flux, shifting, transitioning, fluid. We hope you all enjoy this tentative, uncertain, magical space as much as we have. - The Editors of Hawai`i Review
Contents Gavin McCall Barefoot in the Mainland [7] Gerardo Mena War Child [11] Ben Mazer Aloha [19] Amateurs [21] Derek N. Otsuji The Art of Mango Peeling [37] Urn [38] Tory Adkisson Artifice [45] Husbandry [46] Norah Charles Ghost State [63]
Mark Smith [8] Morna Gourmet [9] The Faiths of Animals Vanessa Hwang Lui [13] Over the Rail
Kaitlin Stainbrook [23] At the 99 Yen Store
Joseph Han [39] Bottles
Ande Davis [47] The Mulvaney Family Parade of Death Norman Lock [71] 5 from Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons
Mitchell Untch Camera Obscura [76] A Walk After a Good, Hard Rain [78]
Michael Cuglietta [81] My Wife and My Two Kids
Lynn McGee Manners [87] Yesterday [90]
Anthony Bukoski I Want to Be a Nudist [95]
Simon Perchik [92] * [93] * Jéanpaul Ferro [107] The Last University Students [109] The Sin of Knowledge
John Fenlon Hogan In the Shadows [111] Self-Portrait as Peter Pan’s Shadow [113]
Wendell Mayo [115] Either Way
Andrei Guruianu Psalm for the Children of the Rain [117] Hall of Luminous Things: Passing Through [119] Single White Feather [121]
Emily McLaughlin Twenty-Nine Messages for C: Lucy as Catastrophe [125]
Shantel Grace Writes of Song [146]
Lyn Lifshin [123] Middlebury Poem [124] Rose
Matt Mullins [145] Silent Movie with a Final Scene Inside Your Car
ART: Peter Chamberlain hyBRIDGE and RainForest 2020 Selections [6, 12, 22, 36, 80, 94, 144, 149, 162]
hyBRIDGE #2 Peter Chamberlain
About the Hawai`i Review Staff Editor-in-Chief Rachel Wolf Content Editor Kelsey Inouye Visual Editor Scot Lycan Poetry Editor Lynn Young Copy Editor Trevor Zakov Readers Amalia Bueno Gizelle Gajelonia Jaimie Gusman Joseph Han Kristofer Koishigawa
About the Journal Hawai`i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai`i at Mänoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawai`i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market.
Administrative and Technical Support Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sandy Matsui, Sammy Khamis, the U.H. English Department, and U.H.M. Board of Publications.
Subscriptions If you enjoy our journal, please subscribe. Domestic rates: one issue - $10; one year (2 issues) - $20; two years (4 issues) - $40. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai`i Review, 2445 Campus Road, Hemenway Hall 107, Honolulu, HI 96822. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit www.hawaiireview.org or email us at hawaiireview@gmail.com for more information.
Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Review 76 Spring 2012
The Journal Hawai`i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai`i at Mänoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawai`i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market.
Administrative and Technical Support Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sandy Matsui, Ka Leo, the U.H.M. Board of Publications, and the U.H.M. English Department.
Subscriptions If you enjoy our journal, please subscribe. Domestic rates: one issue - $10; one year (2 issues) - $20; two years (4 issues) - $40. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai`i Review, 2445 Campus Road, Hemenway Hall 107, Honolulu, HI 96822. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit http://www.kaleo.org/hawaii_review or email us at hawaiireview@gmail.com for more information. © 2012 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawai`i at Mänoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and the artist. ISSN: 0093-9625
Cover Art: Darren W. Brown Internal Art: Darren W. Brown
Dear Reader, This issue of Hawai`i Review focuses on the idea of place - rootedness, lived lives, being at home. We’ve chosen artwork that celebrates our home, here in Hawai`i, and are sure that you will enjoy its natural beauty. The stories, poems, and nonfiction in Issue 76 all share a realism that grows from daily interactions with close people and familiar places. We hope that these works foster a sense of comfort in the reader. We hope that Issue 76 gives you a sense of coming home. We’d like to thank all those who submitted to the Ian MacMillan Awards. We are thrilled to celebrate our award winners in this issue. The Ian MacMillan Awards allow Hawai`i Review a chance to honor the outstanding work being done in the fields of poetry and fiction, both within our University of Hawai`i at Mänoa community and beyond.
Happy reading! The Editors at Hawai`i Review
Contents Ian MacMillan Writing Awards 2012 Winners Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Things Blow Up 7 Jaimie Gusman, Messaging 25 Cheri Nagashima, Suicide of the Lilies 29 Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Ode to Objects 43 Doug Neagoy, Sinking Relics 47 David Wagoner, UP 63
Interviews and Reviews Rachel Wolf, Interview with David Maine 65 Rachel Wolf, Interview with Janine Oshiro 73 D. Kūhiō, Review: Janine Oshiro’s Pier 77
Documentary Poetry No`u Revilla, Focus 79 Ooka Farewell 80 Amalia B. Bueno, Me and Jurison 86 Connie Pan, Black Sleep 89 D. Kūhiō, The Dog-Ears Revisited 90
Nonfiction Jody Hassel, The Body Remembers
95
Prose Poetry Jonathan Ullyot, An Apology 107 Shantel Grace, For There She Was 111
Fiction Ryan Shoemaker, After All the Fun We Had 121 D.J. Thielke, The Church of Carl 133 Soon Wiley, Call Me When You Get There 147 D. Brian Anderson, Girl Watching 159 J.T. Ledbetter, The Swan 165
Poetry Lisa Batya Feld, Recursive 169 Connie Pan, Almost 171 Carly Gates, Glade 173 Susan Rich, Stories From Strange Lands 175 Darling, This Relationship is Damned 177 Brad Johnson, Apogee 179 Cynthia Atkins, When Homer Roams 180 Bryce Emley, deathday 182 Mark Smith, Shell Game 184 Jonathan Barrett, After Watching a Nightmare at 20,000 Feet 185 Like a Nest 187 Peycho Kanev, Garbage Song 189 The Whale 190 D.C. Lynn, Fording Kidron 191 Matt Cook, Conventional Raindrops 192 George Such, Leaving Lombok 194 Jaimie Gusman, For the ones who smash their heads into windshields 195 For the ones who have to wait outside until the surgery is complete 196 For the ones who rip the heads off their Barbie Dolls 198 Adam Walsh, [metabody] 200
Hawai`i Review Editor-in-Chief Rachel Wolf Content Editor Kelsey Inouye Visual Editor Scot Lycan Poetry Editor Lynn Young Copy Editor Trevor Zakov Readers Lurlyn Brown Amalia Bueno Kati Erwin Gizelle Gajelonia Jaimie Gusman Joseph Han Kristofer Koishigawa Kara McManus Nelson Rivera
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Winter 2012
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COVER AND CENTER ART: Joshua W. Miles INTERNAL ART: Jared Wickware
Letter from Dear Reader, Issue 77 of Hawai`i Review came together over the last few months during a tumultuous time in Hawai`i, the nation, and the world. As the editors made our final selections, we noticed that many of the pieces chosen for the issue seemed to reflect the uncertainty that comes with being on the brink of large changes, changes that will certainly alter our world and the way we perceive it. The feelings evoked by this issue’s pieces reminded the editors of our various “coming-of-age” experiences, when the future was simultaneously tantalizing and terrifying. We remembered the challenge presented by personal growth and discovery of who or what can become possible if new pathways are foraged. We felt again the hope and responsibility that attends the decision to grow up. As you read Issue 77, the editors hope that you will also feel a sense of discovery, of the beginning of a journey with an unknown end. Big changes are afoot here, where we are, and probably also there, where you are. But maybe reading the same journal can remind us that we’re all facing these changes together. Thanks for reading. - The Editors at Hawai`i Review
the Editors
Table of
Contents
Mollie Ficek MacDo
9
Lyn Lifshin All Afternoon We Not Thinking It Was So With Yellow Flowers Moving By Touch Though Many Poems Have Come Out of Dreams
23 24 25 26
John Sibley Williams Hall of Records The Singer
27 29
Peter Kispert Leave It Behind
31
William Auten We Would Call It "Hard Zen"
35
Simon Perchik *
37
Nathan Whiting Clouds of Milk
38
Juan Carlos Reyes Parents
39
Lynn Beighley About Anna
41
Randall Brown Unreliable
45
John Spaulding Gypsy Boy
46
David Romanda Trapping
47
Mark Anthony Cayanan Seam and Symmetry Seam and Symmetry
48 49
Joe Baumann Cleave
51
Kelsey Inouye In Quiet
71
Chang Ming Yuan Y
72
Christopher Davis Elegy for an Alchoholic Old Queen
73
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrรกn Waterssong
76
Holly Painter Boys on the Beach
77
Contents
Table of
Contents (cont.) Tyler Davis Body Meditations
79
Kate Kimball The Armani Suit
81
Jason Peters Quorum
91
Alex Fabrizio Decomposition: Llano, Texas
92
Kristi Carter Cosmovore Surrounded by Husks Cosmovore, Homo neanderthalensis, and You
94 95
Dave Madden Little Fingers
99
Elisa Karbin Yellow Curtains, Parted Cobbling
118 119
Rich Ives Alms
121
Dennis Fulgoni Thunder
131
Artwork: Jared Wickware This End Up! Ascent Cloud Practice Gathering Place Dance on Terror Eagle Descent Apparition Humpback Whale Postage Due Walk in the Right Way Think or Whim Nani Lē‘ahi, he maka no kahiki West Eats Meat
8 22 30 34 40 50 70 90 97 98 120 130 147 157
Cover and Center Art: Joshua W. Miles
Contents
About the Journal Hawai`i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawai`i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Administrative and Technical Support
Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sandy Matsui, Ka Leo, the U.H.M. Board of Publications, and the U.H.M. English Department. Subscriptions
If you enjoy our journal, please subscribe. Domestic rates: one issue - $12.50; one year (2 issues) - $25; two years (4 issues) - $50. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai`i Review, 2445 Campus Road, Hemenway Hall 107, Honolulu, HI 96822. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit http://www.kaleo.org/hawaii_review or email us at hawaiireview@gmail.com for more information. © 2012 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and the artists. ISSN: 0093-9625 COVER AND CENTER ART: Joshua W. Miles INTERNAL ART: Jared Wickware
Hawai`i Review Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Wolf Managing Editor: Joseph Han Poetry Editor: Kelsey Amos Design Editor: Christina Lugo Visual Editor: Scot Lycan Readers Lurlyn Brown Sofi Cleveland Kara Crail Kati Erwin Gizelle Gajelonia Quincy Greenheck Ted Hebert Emilie Howlett Sam Ikehara Kristofer Koishigawa Huston Ladner Ryan McKinley Kara McManus Sarah Medeiros Noah Perales-Estoesta Nelson Rivera Dave Scrivner Helen Takeuchi Paige Takeya Maile Thomas Lynn Young Trevor Zakov
Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Review 78
40 th Anniversary Edition
Spring 2013
About the Journal Hawai‘i Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. It reflects only the views of its editors and contributors, who are soley responsible for its content. Hawai‘i Review, a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Jay Hartwell, Robert Reilly, Sandy Matsui, Ka Leo, the U.H.M. Board of Publications, and the U.H.M. English Department. SUBSCRIPTIONS
If you enjoy our journal, please subscribe. Domestic rates: one issue - $12.50; one year (2 issues) - $25; two years (4 issues) - $50. Subscriptions will be mailed at bookrate. Address all subscription requests to: Hawai‘i Review, 2445 Campus Road, Hemenway Hall 107, Honolulu, HI 96822. Advertising rates available upon request. Visit http://www.kaleo.org/hawaii_review or email us at hawaiireview@gmail.com for more information. COVER ART: Olive Nakayama INTERNAL ART: Olive Nakayama, Amelia Samari, Margo Vitarelli
Letter from Dear Reader,
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of our beloved literary journal, Hawai‘i Review. Since the first issue of the journal was published in the winter of 1973, Hawai‘i Review has published work by hundreds of writers and authors from Hawai‘i and around the world. The publication’s longevity and ever-increasing readership continue to serve as a testament to the importance of maintaining spaces for student-run literary publications at the university level. With this milestone issue, the Hawai‘i Review editors felt that it was important to showcase how the journal provides a platform for collaboration among writers and artists, both in Hawai‘i and outside the islands. Issue 78 features our 2013 Ian MacMillan Writing Award Winners in Fiction and Poetry, as well as a wide variety of writing from our other talented contributors. In addition, this issue of Hawai‘i Review features innovative pieces created by three artists working here in our Honolulu community. The Hawai‘i Review editors feel that the photographs and mixed media art pieces chosen for this issue all seem to invoke a sense of rediscovering the mysteries hidden in familiar places, and of becoming intimate with places that were previously only explored in dreams. In a complimentary vein, the writing included in Issue 78 all revolves in some way around a central question: what does it mean to know and love a place?
© 2013 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. All rights revert to the writers and artists upon publication. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and artists.
After forty years, we at Hawai‘i Review are so happy that the journal continues to be known and loved by our Hawai‘i community and our community of readers and writers around the world. We are hopeful and confident that with the continued support of these communities, Hawai‘i Review will continue to flourish in the years to come.
ISSN: 0093-9625
Thanks for reading. - The Editors at Hawai‘i Review
the Editors
Table of Contents 2013 Ian MacMillan Writing Award Winners - Fiction Judge - M. Thomas Gammarino Douglas Neagoy - First Place One Litto Ting
9
Cheri Nagashima - Second Place The Probability and Statistics of Not Killing Yourself in Aokigahara 23 David Scrivner - Third Place Ernest Henry Shackleton: Explorer
43
2013 Ian MacMillan Writing Award Winners - Poetry Judge - Craig Santos Perez Amalia B. Bueno - First Place At Cebu Pool Hall Rob Wilson - Second Place My Hawai‘i Nei Davin Kubota - Third Place Phases of Shopping
57 61 66
Alysha Mendez Escaping a Dream
75
Charlie Bondhus A Talent for Destruction
79
Craig Cotter Downstairs
80
Lou Gaglia Never Trust a Pool Salesman
85
Rose Hunter Buñuelo
93
Amber Esau O le Lua Faitoto‘a
94
Julia Cohen Attached to the Swan Comes the Water Romantic Weather
96 98
Lucy E.M. Black Creamers
101
Jacquelyn Chappel Fishing with Dad
107
Karen Shishido Kanealole
108
Nicole Warsh His Voice: An Excavation
110
Tia North III. Stones, All of Them in Motion
112
J. Alan Nelson Curse
113
Contents
Table of Contents (cont.) Kathy J. Phillips The On-Ramp
115
Coleman Stevenson Belt, Glove, Umbrella
125
Gaylord Brewer Ghost as Housekeeper
126
Internal Art Olive Nakayama I love you this much. Amelia Samari Anyssa in Paris 19éme arrondissement Devon, 2010 Tourist Untitled Sein 1 Margo Vitarelli ‘Oha Wai, Fragile Native Beachworn Beauties Reef Life Jungle Love Printmaker Albrecht Durer, Island Style Hooking an Island Blue Holes Keobel’s Palau Oli Kahiko Floating Whimsy
74 55 78 84 99 114 124
Audrey Brown-Pereira A Painted Portrait of Ladies Two Framed in the Lounge of the Nephew’s Home Night Time
128 129
Michael Skau Night Lesson
131
Joseph Rein Imitations of Chloe
133
Alice Catherine Jennings Café Brújula Oaxaca
137
Cover Art
David Keali‘i Māui’s Secret
138
Steven Rosenthal Liliha Street
Olive Nakayama Some Sunday Front Cover “Eh, try look this grouchy meow meow over here” Back Cover
139
Will Short Gorham Kid Running Distance
141
22 59 63 92 100 106 131 135 136 140 169
Contents
HAWAIâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I REVIEW Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Wolf Managing Editor: Joseph Han Poetry Editor: Kelsey Amos Design Editor: Christina Lugo Visual Editor: Scot Lycan Readers Sofi Cleveland Kara Crail Kati Erwin Noelle Fujii Quincy Greenheck Ted Hebert Emilie Howlett Sam Ikehara Kristofer Koishigawa Huston Ladner Ryan McKinley Kara McManus Sarah Medeiros Noah Perales-Estoesta Dave Scrivner Helen Takeuchi Paige Takeya Maile Thomas Lynn Young Trevor Zakov Floating Whimsy
Margo Vitarelli
HawaiĘťi Review Issue 79
Call & Response 2014
© 2013 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. All requests for reproduction and other propositions should be directed to the writers and artists. ISSN: 0093-9625 About: Hawaiʻi Review is a publication of the Board of Publications of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A bold, student-run journal, Hawaiʻi Review reflects the views of its editors and contributors, who are solely responsible for its content. Hawaiʻi Review is a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Subscriptions: Subscribe to Hawaiʻi Review! Domestic rates are $12.50/copy. International rates are $15/copy. Subscriptions include the cost of shipping at bookrate. Address all subscription requests to Hawaiʻi Review, 2445 Campus Road, Hemenway Hall 107, Honolulu, HI 96822. Advertising rates are available upon request.
Contact:
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Cover Art: The primary art for this cover is Joy Enomoto’s “The Mitosis of Papahānaumoku No. 1,” also featured inside this issue (see 158). Hawaiʻi Review’s design editor, Donovan Kūhiō Colleps, created the block cover overlay and added the type for this cover. Permissions: The following pieces have been reprinted with the permission of the authors: Albert Wendt’s “Garden 1” and “Garden 2” were originally published in his poetry collection, titled From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden (Auckland University Press, 2012); Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s “Lessons from Hawaiʻi” was originally published in a slightly different form in the literary journal Storyboard 12: A Journal of Pacific Imagery Crossing. Printed in the Republic of Korea
Call What inspires us? What motivates
& authors, artists, lookers, listeners, readers, receivers
Response to create? to shape-shift & work together?
Is it possible to curate collaboration? When our team came together for the first time over summer 2013, we decided to create an issue that celebrated collaborations. What you hold in your hands is our attempt to reveal moments of reciprocity between and among artists. Those connecting yet often shrouded moments of Call & Response, which we have approached as a creative process, an intimate form of communication, an imaginative space where where
instincts are reinforced or “guts reverse”*
to share means to make possible— Dawn Mahi to Aiko Yamashiro: “your poem makes me think i have a memory that i don’t. as if i could wish a memory about the past into being because some parts of our story might be similar.”** the possibilities of art & memory emerging between the structured and improvised, the explanatory and secretive, the tender and obscene, the formal and experimental.
This issue is dedicated to the pulsing promise of inspiration. As you carry these works in your hands, we hope you are as moved to listen and create as much as we were.
* (Lyz Soto 46) ** (Dawn Mahi & Aiko Yamashiro 92)
Call & Response Albert Wendt Garden 1 & Garden 2 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Mũgũnda ũrĩa ũngĩ (The Other Garden)
8 10
Lyz Soto Pacific Coordinates Joy Enomoto Map Me Isolated
46 156
Lyz Soto Heterodissociative Joy Enomoto The Mitosis of Papahānaumoku No. 1
47 158
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio What They Cannot See: He Mele Nō Hōpoe kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui Hiʻiaka and Hōpoe
48 160
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Lessons from Hawaiʻi Tell Them kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui E Micronesia
50 54 58
Youssef Hadiri (My Beautiful Mahealani Moon) kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui The Beautiful Mahealani Moon
60 161
Kapulani Landgraf Ka Maunu Pololoi April A.H. Drexel . . . lying in wait . . .
162 62
Doug Poole FIAOTI—FIAOLA/Desire death—Desire Life Lost Possessions Soʻogafai’s Song II The House Penny Howard Soʻogafai’s Song
63 64 65 66 164
67 71
Steps Christina Low Cracked Shells K.L. Quilantang, Jr.
78 166 79
heavens Kelsey Amos Couch Beneath the Heavens Will Caron in a new light Kelsey Amos
80 167
Flight 23 from Cincinnati Alice G. Otto Flight 23 from Cincinnati Brandon Otto
81 163
How to Make a Colonial Cake Leilani Tamu Colonial Cake Janet Lilo
84
Poetrymail Dawn Mahi & Aiko Yamashiro
112 115
Astronaut Jaimie Gusman & Lyz Soto Runs in the Family
117
Kai Kasi Daren Kamali & Grace T.E. Taylor
119
A Bridge. A Rusted Boat. A Dog. A Boy. David James Poissant & Tessa Mellas
133
An Afternoon Slant John Cotter & Shafer Hall
Brandy Nālani McDougall The Second Gift
135
kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui Mai ka Piko Mai
140
Michael Puleloa A Call for Haʻehaʻekū
143
Serena Ngaio Simmons The Process
146
Rajiv Mohabir Indo-queer IV Folksong
148 149
Jaimie Gusman Ghazal Vegetable
150 151
Joseph Han The Phone
169
Carrie Collier Parthenogenesis
172
Maraea Rakuraku The Circus Is in Town Who and What Is Te Urewera When Does It Start? For Marama Davidson
173 175 177
responding to the scholarship, poetry, and activism of Haunani-Kay Trask
responding to a literary genealogy of indigenous Pacific writers
responding to volunteering on Molokaʻi
responding to Rumi’s “Listen to Presences”
responding to Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye Bye” and to Kabir
responding to Gertrude Stein’s “A Substance in a Cushion” responding to M. Thomas Gammarino’s “The Fridge”
responding to Genesis
responding to the October 15, 2007 police raids in New Zealand, and to Marama Davidson
179
For the Anniversary of My Death Eric Paul Shaffer
180
Medeski, Martin, and Wood at Dinner Colleen Michaels
182
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hills and Mesa Lyn Lifshin
183
The Tomato Packer’s Recess Carol Ann Johnston
185
Sartor Resartus Susan Azar Porterfield
186
High Line, Manhattan Francine Rubin
154 187
Codependency Archive Janna Plant The Chimaera
190
Parallel Kevin McLellan
191
Performance Art A.R. Baxter
194
Contributors
responding to W.S. Merwin’s poem
responding to a performance by this trio responding to this visual art
responding to Eudora Welty’s photograph responding to Thomas Carlyle’s work responding to this elevated park
responding to the resume form, and to Zadie Smith’s “An Essay Is an Act of Imagination” responding to Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” responding to a conversation with a visual artist
Hawaiʻi Review Staff 2013–2014
Editor in Chief Anjoli Roy Managing Editor Kelsey Amos Design Editor Donovan Kūhiō Colleps Fiction Editor David Scrivner Poetry Editor Noʻukahauʻoli Revilla Administrative & Technical Support UHM Board of Publications Hawaiʻi Review is grateful to Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada and Fadi Youkhana for their feedback on key portions of this issue!
V o y ag e s HR80 2014
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Cover Art: Detail from Joy Enomoto’s latest show Diasporic Waters. This detail comes from “View from Tuvalu.” See page 147 for Joy Enomoto’s full artist statement. Black-and-white images within this issue are adaptations of segments of the cover detail, produced by Hawaiʻi Review Design Editor, Donovan Kūhiō Colleps. Permissions: Aimee Suzara’s “Hawakan Mo Ang Aking Kamay (Hold My Hand)” was originally published by Meritage Press in their anthology VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets and is reprinted in this issue with the permission of Meritage Press and the author. Printed in the USA
Letter from the Editors
Hawai‘i Review is produced in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. This ocean home—a vast network of histories, intimacies, and reciprocities—inspired the issue in your hands. Our writings are neither remote nor stranded. Voyages are written and rewritten in our bodies. Water and flesh. For this issue we asked, how do others write these (e)scapes? Where does the desire for voyage begin, burn, and end? What do we have left when we have gone? Away is away is away. What about return? Answers to these questions were often frightening and revelatory; they often required new journeys. We invited submissions that navigate voyages in all their strangeness and difficulty. What we found is that no voyage goes exactly as planned. We are re-mapped and re-routed. Our bodies suffer the wear of salt and improvisations. And we are grateful. We are given new directions, new stars. Safe passage through these waters.
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In the Gulf, I am a shadow, upside down, My cousin is bloody roses tatted / on her ankle / her knuckles
I grew up in the ahupuaʻa of Waiheʻe, in Koʻolaupoko, United States zip code No one believed me when I said my dog was poisoned .
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Contents 2014 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards Judges’ Notes on the Winners 10 ~~~ Poetry Winners First Place: “American Homelands” by Lyz Soto 12 Second Place: “Megaptera novaeangliae” by Rajiv Mohabir 21 Third Place: “My Rosy Cousin” by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner 22 ~~~ Fiction Winners First Place: “Mana‘o from the Prison Notebooks of Ka‘aumoana Enos” by Donald Carreira Ching 23 Second Place: “Things Seen and Unseen” by Meg Eden 33 Third Place: “Water” by Angela Nishimoto 49
“Our Waka” Aiko Yamashiro 57 “Dancing in the Belly” Donovan Kūhiō Colleps 58 “Hafekasi” Lee Kava 60 “The North Wind” Denielle Pedro 63 “Hawakan Mo Ang Aking Kamay (Hold My Hand)” Aimee Suzara 67 “Sinking Waka” T-man Thompson 69 “I Stay Wid Herman’s Bones” Amalia Bueno 70 “The Monkey Gate” Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner 71 “Suay” Danielle Seid 73 “Nicaragua” Kathleen de Azevedo 77
“Shouldering” Christina Low Dwight 85 “Flood” David Keali‘i 90 “When You Say Map (Revisited)” David Keali‘i 91 “Nā Pua Purau o Vaimā” ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui 92 “mythology” Jaimie Gusman 93 “The Condescendants” R. Zamora Linmark 96 “Reruns We Watched in the Subantarctic” Jon Willer 97 “The Lightning Field” Laura Hartenberger 101 “Wind, Anemoi spp.” Julia Wieting 106 “Bodies of Water” Julia Wieting 108
“Wagon Mound” Robert McGuill 111 “For Your Trip” Marilyn Cavicchia 124 “Listen to the Radio” Marilyn Cavicchia 125 “The Oregon Trail” Tara Laskowski 127 “Things Happen” William Cass 133 “In the Middle of the Ocean” Michael Cuglietta 139 “[flip flops]” Rose Hunter 143 ~~~ A Note on the Cover: Diasporic Waters, View from Tuvalu Joy Enomoto 147 ~~~ Contributors 148
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Editor in Chief Anjoli Roy Managing Editor Kelsey Amos Design Editor Donovan Kūhiō Colleps Poetry Editor No‘ukahau‘oli Revilla Fiction Editor David Scrivner Administrative & Technical Support UHM Student Media Board Volunteers Jacquelyn Chappel, Sara Hayashi, Celene Fraticelli, Dax Garcia, Abbey Mayer, Madoka Nagado, Christie Pang, Teresa Porter, Madisyn Uekawa We are so grateful for our team of volunteers who continue to help to make the journal and all of its endeavors possible!
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CONTENTS Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner “Speech at the U.N. Climate Summit in New York City, September 23, 2014” 8 “dear matafele peinam” 9 Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán “Sovereign Waters: Queer and Womanist Indigenous Reflections on Water: An International Indigenous Roundtable Discussion with Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Cathie Koa Dunsford, ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, Aurora Levins Morales, D. Keali‘i MacKenzie, Lisa Suhair Majaj, and Loa Niumeitolu” 13 Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada “To Ea: In response to David Kahalemaile, August 12, 1871” 30 Craig Santos Perez “From understory: during RIMPAC 2014” 32 Diane Lefer “Blast Wind” 35 Lyz Soto “Flumes for Muliwai” 48 “Dredging” 50 ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui “Ka Muliwai” 51 Waimea Williams “Blood at the Stones” 55 Heather Dobbins “The River Ghost Queens” 60 Liesl Nunns “Slip Joint” 65 Atar Hadari “Storm Watching” 73
Abby Mason “Where the River Meets the Sea” 74 Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada “Of No Real Account” 75 Rain Wright “A Way with Water” 87 “Tangles in Organ” 90 Jill Birdsall “Under P-house” 93 Owen Duffy “Bitch Creek” 97 Ashley Davidson “Thirst” 113 Rajiv Mohabir “Whale Story” 120 Jéanpaul Ferro “The Secret State of Everything” 126 Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio “To Wet Your Scales” 127 Julia Wieting “Who, moi” 128 Crisosto Apache “Quadrants” 129 Serena Ngaio Simmons “Hungry” 134 Tui Scanlan “Waypoints” 136
Joseph Han “The main reason why Korean men move to Hawai‘i (and move back)” 139 Liz Prato “Covered in Red Dirt” 141 James Norcliffe “The madness of crowds” 148 Colin Fleming “Mr. Chompers” 149 Henry W. Leung “First Element” 161 C.R. Resetarits “Bull” 162 Moana Nepia “If” 163 Will Cordeiro “Brackish” 164 VISUAL ART Joy Enomoto Artist Statement 167 “‘Ūpā pa‘akai” 177 “The Path Is Not Always Clear” 178 “Pūkai” 179 No‘ukahau‘oli Revilla “Ocean Stains” 180 Lianne Charlie “This Is Where Your People Are From” (essay) 168 “Collage” 181
Haley Kailiehu Artist Statement 171 “Ho‘oulu ‘Āina” 182 “‘Ukuko‘ako‘a” 186 “Mural for Mākua Valley” 188 “Nā Wai ‘Ehā” (essay) 173 “Nā Wai ‘Ehā” 190 ERRATUM Charlie Bondhus “A Talent for Destruction” 193 CONTRIBUTORS
The Ian MacMillan Writing Awards fifth anniversary
HR82 2015
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Editor in Chief Anjoli Roy Managing Editor Kelsey Amos Design Editor Donovan Kūhiō Colleps Poetry Editor No‘ukahau‘oli Revilla Fiction Editor David Scrivner Administrative & Technical Support UHM Student Media Board Volunteers Jacquelyn Chappel, Sara Hayashi, Celene Fraticelli, Dax Garcia, Abbey Seth Mayer, Madoka Nagado, Christie Pang, Teresa Porter, Madisyn Uekawa We are so grateful for our team of volunteers who continue to help to make the journal and all of its endeavors possible! Mahalo nui loa to Jay Hartwell for all his guidance!
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Letter from the Editors Thank you so much to our judges for making this contest possible. Thank you so much to our volunteers for helping our genre editors read so closely and lovingly through the dozens of submissions that each category garnered this year. Thank you to our winners for choosing Hawaiʻi Review as the home for their dazzling works, and a special thanks to all who submitted to this year’s contest. The Ian MacMillan Writing Awards are doing well! They continue to honor the late Prof. Ian MacMillan while offering writers from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and beyond a wonderful place to publish, along with a whopping $500 prize for first-place winners. We aren’t joking when we say that the contest continues to grow. Between 2014’s contest and this year’s, the number of submissions grew by 86% for fiction and a whopping 276% for poetry. Our brand-new category, creative nonfiction, received 35% more submissions than our two established categories did last year. Issue 82 marks the fourth and last issue that we five student-editors are producing together for Hawaiʻi Review. It’s been a wild, generative, beautiful time. Thank you for letting us be part of our literary community in this way. Thank you for reading these pages, for publishing your work with us, for supporting the reading events that showed off just how truly talented our contributors are. We are so grateful to have been able to spend this time and these pages with you. We are also excited to see how the next team of editors will continue to transform this journal, pushing its boundaries and reinventing it as they see fit. It is our sincere hope that they know the pleasure we did in working together on Hawaiʻi Review. Me ka mahalo nui loa, The (Current) Editors
Contents 2015 Ian MacMillan Writing Awards Judges’ Notes on the Winners 7 ~~~ Creative Nonfiction (new category!) First Place: “Love Letters” by Leanne Trapedo Sims 11 Second Place: “Shrines” by Rain Wright 21 Third Place: “Ruby” by Donna Kaz 27 ~~~ Fiction First Place: “The Limits of My Love: A Kitsune Tale” by Abbey Seth Mayer 31 Second Place: “And Christ Shall Give Thee Light” by Jeffery Ryan Long 43 Third Place: “The Wild Sound” by Sofi Cleveland 55 ~~~
Poetry First Place: “Rumiko / A Series of Possessions” by Meg Eden 65 Second Place: “An Acte for the Punysshement of the Vice of Buggerie” by Rajiv Mohabir 71 Third Place: “Snow in Jerusalem” by Sofi Cleveland 75 ~~~ Contributors 77
ISSUE 83
Literature of Crime
WINTER 2016
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Abbey Seth Mayer MANAGING EDITOR Chase Wiggins POETRY EDITOR Julia Wieting
DESIGN EDITOR Avree Ito-Fujita
FICTION EDITOR Kapena Landgraf
GRAPHIC NOVEL EDITOR Scott Kaʻalele
NON-FICTION EDITOR Rain Wright
GRAPHIC NOVEL DESIGN EDITOR Crystel Sundberg-Yannell
ADMINISTRATIVE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Media Board Mahalo nui loa to Jay Hartwell for his guidance! Hawaiʻi Review is a publication of the Student Media Board of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A bold, student-run journal, Hawaiʻi Review reflects the views of its editors and contributors, who are solely responsible for its content. Hawaiʻi Review is a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Cover Art: “Only Child” by Tyrone Brown-Osborne is a still from the film The Return of Black Shamus directed by Rhasaan Oyasaba Manning (OYASABA). See page 39 for more on the film and OYASABA and Brown-Osborne’s work. CONTACT: SUBMIT: PURCHASE
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Why Literature of Crime? Our reasons are the same as yours. We love the subversive, the profane, the mysterious; the desperation, reptilian fragility, and tender humanity. From the cold and unsentimental, to dripping with angst and passion; from the hypersanity of psychosis, to the frozen witness and the helpless victim—we feel crime offers it all. Our dream was to offer all this back to you. The dream of laying down in the sunshine, of a furtive glance at a poem when otherwise on the clock, of a secret friend inside the textured pages of a book—a place for adventure, exploration, rebellion, disbelief, horror, delight, love, sin, and sex... We at Hawai‘i Review are humbled, proud, and supremely grateful to our contributors for delivering all this and more. On behalf of our entire editorial staff, I thank you for your efforts, pains, struggles, and staggering accomplishments. Aloha no, Abbey
CONTENTS POETRY Chris Siteman
We, Who Survived
David Romanda
Pitt Lake
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Christopher Davis
IDOL
27
Ruben Rodriguez
Lament for a Summer, Stifling
29
Chris Siteman
X &Y
44
James Reidel
Bamiyan
46
Judith Skillman
Bees Bow the Lavender
48
Jon Riccio
Sham Identi-Kits
49
Jennifer Molnar
Reasons for Taking a Second Husband
51
David Romanda
Influences
52
Cindy King
Study in White
53
Claire Gearen
Wishbone
54
Judith Skillman
Kafkaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shadow
74
Cindy King
Ten-Piece Dark
76
Kierstin Bridger
Missing
78
Noel Sloboda
Agent Provocateur
80
Noel Sloboda
At the Tactical Police Training Institute
81
Chris Haven
I am the Watchman
85
Simon Perchik
Untitled
87
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Richard King Perkins II
No Reason to Leave Elburn
88
Craig Cotter
Dear Bill
104
D. M. Aderibigbe
Sons
107
Erin McIntosh
This is how it happens
109
D.M. Aderibigbe
The Cleaner
111
Michelle Hartman
Vinn Diagrams
112
Craig Cotter
ON LENNON’S 70TH BIRTHDAY
130
Stephen Mead
Puts Me in Mind
133
Greg Allendorf
Reflection
134
Erin McIntosh
BOY STOP SMASHING UP THIS OUR HOUSE
136
Jennifer Molnar
Reception
142
James Reidel
The Green Man
143
Jennifer Molnar
Lot’s Wife
144
Liz Robbins
I Am Martha Beck I Am Elizabeth Báthory I Am Genene Jones I Am Karla Homolka
158
Judith Skillman
Andy Warhol Circa 2015
183
Ross Knapp
Two Artists in St. Tropez
186
Gaylord Brewer
Solicitation to the Reader Regarding the Continuing Influence of the Thieves upon My Poems, Following a Visit from Neruda
188
CONTENTS FICTION Kathryn Paulsen
A Case for Muriel
12
Gen Del Raye
All Weather Killer
30
In the Blue
55
Swim
82
The Butcher Bird
89
Wendy Herlich Joseph Han Todd Gray Travis Hedge Coke Mark Rapacz Jeanne Althouse
Angelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Molt
113
Mr. Massoni Never Supinates
164
Uncle Seth
190
NON-FICTION Chelsey Clammer Leanne Trapedo Sims
The Sights
138
The Culinary of Flesh: Kizkalesi Beach
146
ART Rhasaan Oyasaba Manning
The Return of Black Shamus
39
Eunice Chang
Guilt
73
Analiese Arle
Gone
129
Hell: Libera Me
163
CONTRIBUTORS
194
Eunice Chang
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THE IAN MACMILLAN WRITING AWARDS
ISSUE 84
The Ian MacMillan Writing Awards
SUMMER 2016
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Abbey Seth Mayer MANAGING EDITOR Chase Wiggins POETRY EDITOR Julia Wieting
DESIGN EDITOR Avree Ito-Fujita
FICTION EDITOR Kapena Landgraf
GRAPHIC NOVEL EDITOR Scott Kaʻalele
NON-FICTION EDITOR Rain Wright
GRAPHIC NOVEL DESIGN EDITOR Crystel Sundberg-Yannell
ADMINISTRATIVE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Media Board Mahalo nui loa to Jay Hartwell for his guidance! Hawaiʻi Review is a publication of the Student Media Board of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A bold, student-run journal, Hawaiʻi Review reflects the views of its editors and contributors, who are solely responsible for its content. Hawaiʻi Review is a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market. Cover Art: “Seven Orchids” by Avree Ito-Fujita. CONTACT: SUBMIT: PURCHASE:
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF During my year as Editor-in-Chief of Hawai‘i Review, I have been told again and again by former students, professional writers, and UH and visiting professors how incredible a person and how profound an influence Ian McMillan was in their lives. While I regret never having the opportunity to meet or study with Ian, I, along with my fellow editors, have been honored and humbled to carry on this small piece of his giant legacy. Thank you, Ian, for continuing to provide us with opportunities for growth. Special thanks to our judges this year—Paul Lyons, Emelihter Kihleng, and ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawainui—for dedicating so much of their time, and for placing so care into the what was an extremely competitive and accomplished slate of entries. Most of all, I send my deepest gratitude to our contributors for pushing forward, staring down the demons, doing the work, and then trusting us with it. I can comfortably speak for the entire HR editorial staff when I say, you are our heroes. Mahalo nui loa, Abbey
IAN MACMILLAN Established in 2010, the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards honor Prof. Ian MacMillan, a long-term and much admired and respected faculty member, who taught in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English Department’s Creative Writing Program starting in 1966. MacMillan inspired countless students and writers during his 43 years of teaching. MacMillan authored seven novels and four short story collections, made over a hundred appearances in literary and commercial magazines, and won major awards for his short fiction including The Associated Writing Programs Award, The O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Stories Award. He received the 1992 Hawai‘i Award for Literature, and his novel Village of a Million Spirits won the 2000 PEN-USA-West Award for Fiction. Other novels include The Braid and The Seven Orchids. Both books are set in Hawai‘i. He won an excellence-in-teaching award in 2005 and the University’s Distinguished Mentoring Award in 2006. Hawaiʻi Review is proud to present works from the 6th annual Ian MacMillan Writing Awards.
CONTENTS CREATIVE NON-FICTION First Place: Amy D’Amico
prostitution is slavery even if
11
Second Place: J. Jacqueline McLean
Daddy’s Front Porch
17
Third Place: Anjoli Roy
Love Letter to Kurseong
33
Finalists: Looking for Where the Sky Meets the Sea
38
Meg Eden
Drinking Stories
51
Scot Lycan
Into Morocco
55
Gabrielle Burton
FICTION First Place: Sam Gridley
The Genuine Article
63
Second Place: Jeffery Ryan Long
Scantron
87
Third Place: Sam Ikehara
Weaving
105
Finalists: Spencer Yim Kealamakia Angela Nishimoto Joe Tsujimoto
Kipuka
115
Road-Kill
134
Water
145
POETRY First Place: Meg Eden
Radium Girls
163
Second Place: Stella Jeng Guillory
Chief Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flute
167
Third Place: Emily Benton
Self-Portrait as a Brown Tree Snake
170
Finalists: Gabrielle Burton
Memory After A Miscarriage
172
Kamden Hilliard
CHNAGE THE NAME TOO FANTASTIC 3 AND THE NIGGA OR 3 FANTASTICS AND THE FLAME MONKEY
174
Sentry Bird
176
CONTRIBUTORS
179
Henry Wei Leung
Occupying Va
Occupying Occupying Va Va 85
OCCUPYING VA the betweenness Hawai‘i Review #85 “Va is the space between, the betweenness, not empty space, not space that separates but space that relates, that holds separate entities and things together in the Unity-that-is-All, the space that is context, giving meaning to things. The meanings change as the relationships and the contexts change. . . . A well-known Samoan expression is ‘Ia teu le va’—cherish, nurse, care for the va, the relationships.” -Albert Wendt, “Tatauing the Post-Colonial Body” Here in the occupied islands of Hawai‘i, whose sovereign space was illegally overthrown in 1893, and around the globe, people are advocating and active in movements to reclaim and change relational spaces. What we say about space today might be a litmus test for the unrest around us, as well as for our own efforts of nursing and care. Hannah Arendt insisted that the world is not a thing but a moving field of relations, a space we all continually make. What might it mean to occupy relational space? Can va be occupied? We occupy, but we also hold, and share. What would be the story of such a space? This is the first of a two-part series.
Fall 2016
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jeffery Ryan Long MANAGING EDITOR Henry Wei Leung POETRY EDITOR LynleyShimat Renée Lys FICTION EDITOR Brooke Jones DESIGN EDITOR Jam Hough DESIGN ASSISTANT Ana Bitter ADMINISTRATIVE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT Ana Bitter & Nathan Kawanishi University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Media Board Mahalo nui loa to Jay Hartwell for his guidance! Hawaiʻi Review is a publication of the Student Media Board of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A bold, student-run journal, Hawaiʻi Review reflects the views of its editors and contributors, who are solely responsible for its content. Hawaiʻi Review is a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market.
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the va: between teeth and tongue 1. when she first taught me to brush my teeth my mother would gaze into my open jaw, inspecting the texture of my breath she would search for sharp mint, tap water, spit, and pink fluoride chewable scents, assurance there were no gaps in her teaching, no gap in my practice for preventing things from falling out of my head. 2. every night, I tend the spaces between my mother’s tongue and my grandparent’s Tonga, bristling
3. bite, floss, bleed, remember— repeat the spaces between your teeth, tongue them as shapes of the sacred
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between risk, guilt, absence, mistakes the nights I go to sleep without remembering the weeks, months, and years I go without visiting
the va: between pages taha. You want the va? well I don’t have it. wouldn’t be able to hold it even if I was born better understanding place and time—
Lee Kava
what is a poem about va but a grasping
grasping
grasping
at what I am unfit to hold ua. I belong between no one’s scissors I am dis jointed thread, un wound lengths of not being present for birthdays funerals weddings my loyalties un trusted—yet I belong between no one’s cutting
my pieces are sharpened by my own
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teeth— that is the va
I am cut from.
tolu. the va I write I grasp at in a poem about a word
of space time so old it wouldn’t fit in the pages of a single issue. fa. va belongs to my grandparents to aunties uncles cousins brothers sisters who tauhi
va
from first breath— the va cannot be fully explained in English.
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the va: between pages
about a concept
Table of Contents Lee Kava
the va: between teeth and tongue / 5 the va: between pages / 6
Craig Santos Perez Shawna Yang Ryan
Judges’ Statements / 11
Lynley Shimat Lys Brooke Jones Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr. Christopher Rose Emeka Chinagorom Christopher Rose
Poetry Editor’s Intro / 12
T. De Los Reyes
An Ending, A Beginning / 24 Kayumanggi / 25
Kim Darlene Brandon
My Blood / 26 Calliope / 28
Vincent Toro
Fiction Editor’s Intro / 13 Fishing / 14 Fastfood / 15 Now That You Are Black In America / 16 Admonishment / 20 Last Rites / 21 If My Mother Had Named Me / 22 New Wave / 23
On Battling (Baltimore Strut) / 29 Promesa (HR 4900) / 30
Elahe Fayazi Müesser Yeniay Hossein Rahmani Marianne Chen
Sad women / 32
Ken’ichi Sasō
古い森 / 36 水神 / 38 ヒトの境内 / 42 気配の祭り / 44
Noriko Hara & Joe DeLong (trans.)
Old Forest / 37 Suijin / 40 The Shrine Precinct of Homo Sapiens / 43 The Festival of Indications / 45
Between My Body and the World / 33 The Shepherd / 34 The Call to Recall / 35
失踪的船家 / 46 The Missing Ferryman / 47
‘Umi Perkins
The Breach / 48
Aaric Tan Xiang Yeow
‘Cher / 58 Error Script / 59
Julia B Levine
Ordinary Psalm with Hillside Stations of the Cross / 60 Ordinary Psalm with Peril / 62
John A. Nieves
What Passed as Refuge (Amissio) / 63 Shivaree (Puella) / 64 Entropy / 65 What Do You Think of When You Think of Home? / 66
Laura Rena Murray
Blue-Eyed / 67 Syrian Girl / 68
Leah Shlachter
To Make a Dish Hawaiian Just Add Pineapple / 69
Kou Sugita
All the ghosts in me feel small / 71
Ae Hee Lee
(Dear Bear, / 72
Mohammed Ali Mirzaei
Two Girls / 73 Sequences / 74 Mobility in Border / 75 Haj Qorban / 76
Rita Mendes-Flohr Barbara Ruth
Gorges: Entering the In-between / 77
Noah Jung
this happened, once / 82 no water, no light / 83
Ace Boggess
“Would You Like to Be on the Moon With Me, Darling, or Would You Be Afraid?” / 84
Kara Mae Brown
Dune Shack, Cape Cod, 1973 / 85
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Neutral Buoyancy / 95
Hypomania / 81
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S. Brook Corfman Rita Mendes-Flohr
from Luxury, Blue Lace / 96 Netherworld / 101 Eurydice in the Galilee / 102 Fishing Stones / 103
Eric Paul Shaffer W. Todd Kaneko
Cardinal in February: O‘ahu / 104 When I Ask My Son to Speak / 105 All Of This Will Be Yours One Day / 106 Little Minidoka / 107
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Rizwati Freeman Heather Nagami
Sasha and Hermann / 108 Safe House / 114 Welcome / 115
Charles W. Brice Penina Ava Taesali
Forward Pass / 116 thirteen lines from the beloved daughter / 117 Prayers from the Mouth of the River / 118
Joe Balaz Lark Omura
Charlene / 120 Braddahs / 122 Scotty O Visits Oakland / 126
Tia North
Elegy for Kepo‘okelaokekai / 127 To Call “Pueo” / 128 Say I / 129
Mariel Alonzo
when scales fade to foam / 130
Verna Zafra Cynthia Arrieu-King
The Dragonfruit / 132
Kapena M. Landgraf
‘Ai Pōhaku / 139
Contributors’ Notes
/ 141
Notes on Yucca Valley / 133
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Occupying Va: Transformations
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Occupying Va:
Transformations May 11, 2017 09:19:30
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jeffery Ryan Long MANAGING EDITOR Henry Wei Leung POETRY EDITOR LynleyShimat Renée Lys FICTION EDITOR Brooke Jones DESIGN EDITOR Jam Hough DESIGN ASSISTANT Ana Bitter ADMINISTRATIVE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Student Media Board Mahalo nui loa to Jay Hartwell for his guidance! Hawaiʻi Review is a publication of the Student Media Board of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A bold, student-run journal, Hawaiʻi Review reflects the views of its editors and contributors, who are solely responsible for its content. Hawaiʻi Review is a member of the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and is indexed by the Humanities International Index, the Index of American Periodical Verse, Writer’s Market, and Poet’s Market.
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Copyright 2017 by Board of Publications University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. ISSN: 0093-9625 Printed in the USA
OCCUPYING VA T ransformaTions
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself — a Black woman warrior poet doing my work — come to ask you, are you doing yours?” - Audre Lorde, in her speech “The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action” delivered on a Lesbian and Literature panel at the Modern Language Association’s 1977 conference.
Just shy of forty years after Audre Lorde spoke these words, we are still surrounded by worldwide systems of oppression and the silences that accompany them. As we enter a frightening new American presidency, as Empire everywhere continues to dispossess and exile Native and othered peoples and people of color, we ask you to consider the in-between spaces within yourself. Where are your crossroads and intersections, and what are the words you need in this especially complex time? We ask that you remember Lorde’s words: “it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.” This is the second in a two-part series.
HR 86 Spring 2017
DEAR WESTERN JOURNALISTS
Lina AlSharif
Dear Western journalists, you come from your faraway lands offering to uncover my secrets you cite your resources: ban the burqa subway ads Jasmine from Aladdin and a few harem paintings found in your local museum. You are covering my cover asking me why I’m all covered your father is making you? your brother is threatening you? your husband is forcing you? I see your prejudice tucked under your coverage. Dear Western journalists, I look for your coverage while I am covered with the rubble of my house while I am covering my children in shrouds I find your words covering up the truth for the people who got you covered all because it’s ‘unbiased coverage’. Dear Arab journalists, you want to cover my mouth telling me I’m swimming in an ocean of sharks warning me to go back to land or be ripped apart I’m taking off the veils covering your brains I’m not whitewashing your cover that’s my blood spewed on sheets and streets. I cover my stories I am writing these reports.
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THINGS WE LOSE TO BORDERS
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Lina AlSharif
a track of time “It’s been 1460 days since I’ve seen you” could have said 4 years, but that sounds shorter a seat on the table filled by new family members I have never seen a voice that hides its vulnerability behind a high-pitched “I’m fine” weddings, feasts, births, deaths all share the same long distance call trope “wish you were with us”, “wish I were with you” plans, plans, plans changed, cancelled, postponed to “when we meet”, “if we see each other again,” a full story where our hands touch and we watch the same sunset.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Lina AlSharif Dear Western Journalists Things We Lose to Borders
I - we were lured from our own pools 13 |
Diana Barnes-Brown Animal Cruelty Explaining Hear t Failure to a Paramedic Instructions for Perfect Teeth
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Carl Boon Edges of War, 2017 Suleymaniye The Diyala River After Nahit Ulvi Akgun
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Omoefe Grant-Oyeye The Two Faces of an Old Ghost
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Hamed Hasany Asiabdare Mother
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Bill Trippe Need to Know
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Joe Balaz Hiding Dere in the Ocean Grass Like Wun Ghostly White on Rice Cecilia Goes to Maryknoll
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Edythe Haendel Schwartz Child
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Abby Chew Dance Story Rhona’s Sea Story
II - fingertips on this fire 45 |
Vishwas R. Gaitonde Degree Coffee
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Vasyl Lozynsky (Василь Лозинський), translated from the Ukrainian by Ostap Kin & Ali Kinsella Untitled (A Loud Title) [Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s secretary] [you were dancing at a night club] New York
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Kayvan Tahmasebian, translated from the Farsi by Rebecca Gould Ar tist’s Statement on Janin Poem Cycle The Fetus of the Dream The Fetus of the Text The Fetus of the Marginalia Shah’s Mosque
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Fabiyas M V Tughlug
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Ustav Kaushik Oops! Agh! And Oh! The World Is So Silent
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Vasyl Makhno, translated from the Ukrainian by Olga Gerasymiv The House on Seven Winds On The Road Paris
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Kathleen Gunton Lirios De Perdon Time’s Question Like Magic The Geography of Death
III - [sky] beside Blue 97 |
Alleliah Nuguid Manananggal Why the Filipino’s Nose Is Flat Self Study
100 | Matthew Woodman The Phantom Trembling Woman The Blue Chair Thumbing the Scale Either You Leave Or You Get Lost 105 | Jason Mastaler Still Life With the Cats of Jerusalem The Last One 107 | Barry Kitterman Locust Street 117 | Jose D. Trejo-Maya Sun Daggers Akashic Archives Seven Mirror La Hierba Retorcida
IV - the flavoring of ocean water 129 | Ana-Christina Acosta Gaspar de Alba Secretos
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133 | Sheryl Nelms Crescent Moon in Texas South Dakota Badlands “Have You Got a Dollar Lady?” 138 | Mariela Griffor Declassified 140 | Teresa De La Cruz Me Coconut, You Machete Star Dust Love Fragments 149 | Lyn Lifshin The Mad Girl Knows that the Days Are Getting Longer The Mad Girl Dreams of Houses Left Behind After Too Many Nights Drugged “In the Violet Hour” on a Page, Maybe in a Poetry Book Someone Was Reading on the Metro The Week Repor t Says the Week Ahead Will Bring Snow On the First Morning Snow Is Predicted Dutch Rescuer of the Jews in the Holocaust. One Killed a Nazi to Save a Family 151 | E. Kristin Anderson The Queen Presents The Riot Interrupted 153 | David Rodriguez Scurf / Suit 155 | Pelenakeke Brown Leaking 156 | Andrew Rahal Barrel / Sanctuary Entering Sappho Leaving Truth Leaving the Circle 161 | David Romanda Home
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162 | Adria Bernardi Sidewalk & Other Neural Networks of Well-Being
V - yet to end 187 | Shane Seely Black Ice Black Tuesday 190 | Nancy F. Talbott Fissures 194 | K.L. Fujiwara Sqawking Despot 195 | Duke Trott Invasive Species 198 | Lisa Yanover Divining the Past 203 | D.A. Lockhart What Makes Us the Creatures We Must Be Dewey Bends Daylight Around Irvington High School Dropping Lines Along the Towpath Canal 206 | Alaina Symanovich Faulty Hear ts 215 | Emileigh Barnes Seatown, a Definitional Hymn 219 | Ken Tokuno Guidance Toward Death 223 | Lina AlSharif Fingerprints Buds and Roses
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