Proposed additions
By: Donovan Kūhiō Colleps
Publisher: TinFish Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kāneʻohe, HI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780989186124
Subjects: Poetry; Grandfathers; Cancer; Patients
Description: "Donovan Kūhiō Colleps constructs Proposed additions out of many parts: a house blueprint; his grandfather's cancer journal; the instructions to a pulmonary respirator; the story of a daddy sea horse; and an investigation of Oʻahu's leeward side, its histories and its moʻolelo. In this hybrid work--documentary poem, prose reflection, elegy--Colleps recovers his grandfather's memory by way of the filing cabinet he left behind. As the poet carries the metal cabinet strapped to his back across the ʻEwa plain, he recovers more than this intimate past. He also recovers significant cultural and linguistic histories of place in a part of Hawaiʻi now being over-developed"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-59).