Blues and Greens : : A Produce Worker's Journal / / Alan Chong Lau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lau, Alan Chong,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A blue note --; I. Blues --; Morning blues --; 6 A.M --; Primping --; Going for a dip --; Preparing sashimi --; Winter melon --; Nasubi --; Melons --; Chi goo --; Bitter melon --; Ginger --; Red delicious --; Uncovering the evidence --; Boys at play --; The end of spring --; Bean sprouts --; The price --; When it rains --; II. Greens --; Raw peanuts --; Grapes --; Stormbringer --; The green mustache --; Shoplifter --; Mustard greens --; Issei farmer --; The gambler's wife --; The voice --; This is only a test --; The old man remembers asparagus --; Fishing --; In summer --; The accident --; Omens --; Mothra's cousin grazes the produce rack --; III. Stranger root --; Strange root --; Paper flowers --; The sale on water chestnuts --; Matsutake, living treasures under the pine --; Sorting things out --; Escape from the fish tank --; Garden of Eden --; Garden of Eden 2 --; Sign language --; The king's English --; The gesture --; The meat of a mango --; IV. Hello, little bean sprout! --; Sprout woman --; Plumbing the depths --; Late summer --; The footprint --; Green onions --; Black iris --; Scavengers --; The sore loser --; The gate --; This sky --; Starting work --; The apology --; Tools of his trade --; Baby Ruth --; Finding the hair of a Mexican woman in this box of sugar peas --; The raft --; A view from the stairs --; Boredom --; The river, the potatoes --; After the rain --; V. Long beans and the maori warrior --; Long beans and the maori warrior --; The squeak of sugar peas --; The return of the gambler's wife --; Frost warning --; The argument --; Three lumpy oranges --; Bunching Gai Lan --; The spill --; Perfection in design --; The kids from Tokyo --; The interrogation --; ID at dusk --; The fight --; In front of the bank --; Orphan --; Her brown face --; Day of the parade --; A funny word --; Two women talking --; The boy and the Jackfruit --; When work lets out --; Coming home --; About the author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824846251; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824846251
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alan Chong Lau.

Alan Chong Lau’s poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle’s Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America—a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor. With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people’s humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans—native-born, refugee, and migrant—are today.