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Honolulu Pilgrimage

Honolulu Pilgrimage


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A city-walker in Honolulu poses skeptical questions to a Shinto gateway and seems to hear from it some impudent and savvy replies. A stone used as a Hawaiian shrine marker presides over what the newspaper reports as the "return of a sacred land," but Kaho'olawe is still studded with unexploded ordnance. A fisherman describes Ke'ehi Lagoon after a molasses spill, where the multiplying glops seem to produce their own hiccups of rhyme: "sagging eels, looped and coiled, / gagging fish, heaped and spoiled, / spill gill kill frill, the rill is still / who gets the bill...." In the series "Encounters," a homeless woman bestows her own gifts, and a twirling adman, dressed as the Statue of Liberty (with frangipani lei), lures tax filers from the sidewalk. In "Koans for Now," fragments of pidgin conversation spark some sudden realizations connecting Micronesian immigration and the nuclear evaporation of a whole island in Bikini Atoll.The mood of the city-walker swings between bafflement and wonder, nudged now and then into an epiphany or two. The tone of the collection as a whole is witty, sardonic, or exuberant, rooted in the grit and foibles of everyday life in a big city.
About the Author: Kathy J. Phillips is a professor emerita of English at the University of Hawaii. During her tenure, she published five books, including Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature, This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding (poetry), and The Moon in the Water: Reflections on an Aging Parent, which was included by Library Journal in their "Best Books of 2008." She visits a Pohaku, upright stone, on her campus, and walks past the orange Torii, free-standing gate, almost every day in her Moili'ili neighborhood of Honolulu, where the various homeless folks, museum pictures, zendos, and store clerks of the poems also teach her.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781546431947
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 249 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1546431942
  • Publisher Date: 26 May 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: : Urban Poems
  • Width: 152 mm


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