Coral road
Subtitle: poems
By: Garrett Hongo
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780375712043
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry
Description: "In Coral Road, Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland his ancestors found on the island of O'ahu after their immigration from southern Japan, and meditates on the dramatic tales of the islands. In sumptuous narrative poems he takes up strands of family stories and what he calls 'a long legacy of silence' about their experience as contract laborers along the North Shore of the island. In the opening sequence, he brings to life the story of his great-grandparents fleeing from one plantation to another, finding their way by moonlight along coral roads and railroad tracks."--Publisher description.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi Book."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: I. Coral Road; title: II. The Wartime Letters of Hideo Kubota; title: III. The Art of Fresco; title: IV. A Map of Kahuku in Oregon; title: V. Elegy.