num_pages: 112
description: Poems and prose by San Francisco's second Poet Laureate. This impressive collection brings together Mirikitani’s strongest poems on a diversity of the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the fragility and challenges of family relationships, and the quest by people at the margins of society to claim justice, bread and dignity. Also included is her long inaugural essay in which she discusses how poetry can connect people and transform lives.
language: English
title: Love Works
titlecomplete: Love Works (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 33
publisher: City Lights Foundation Books