Garrett Hongo - November 17, 2005

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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Himmel Park Library
Garrett Hongo: Lecture

Garrett Hongo reads from and discusses a cycle of poems written from the point of view of Kubota, a figure based on his maternal grandfather. He also reads poems written by Japanese internees at a detention center in Santa Fe during the 1940s.

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On the historical context for his poems: Japanese-American internment in WWII
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"Kubota to Miguel Hernández in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942."
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Hongo, Garrett. Coral Road: Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

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"Kubota Writes to Vallejo About Hope"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Hongo, Garrett. "Kubota Writes to Vallejo About Hope." Poetry International 18/19 (2012): 427-428. Print.

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"Kubota to the Chinese Poets Detained on Angel Island"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Hongo, Garrett. Coral Road: Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

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Internee Japanese Poetry from 1940s Santa Fe
Description

Poems read in Japanese and English. Recording displays distortion at 9:56.

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"Kubota Returns to the Midst of Life"
Description

Published version bears the title "Kubota Returns to the Middle of Life."

Citation

Hongo, Garrett. Coral Road: Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

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"Kubota on Kahuku Point to Maximus in Gloucester"
Citation

Hongo, Garrett. Coral Road: Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

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Image
Garrett Hongo
Photographer
Christine Krikliwy
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