Outer Islands / / Gary Kissick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kissick, Gary,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Poetry Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (88 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dedication, for Yukiko -- I. IF STONE WERE RAIN -- A pact with spirits -- If stone were rain -- Kohala -- Dawn at Halape oasis -- Hiking beneath Holei Pali -- Pololu Valley -- Kapaa, Hawaii -- At Paliku -- Waianapanapa -- Hanakapiai Valley -- Na Pali -- Rain quietude -- Night rain -- My open eyes -- II. A LITTLE WINE -- What harm can a little wine do? -- Kalalau Valley -- I was swimming -- My mantra -- Shimmering -- Yukiko -- Become someone -- In a bamboo grove -- Gingko leaf -- Honolulu -- Paiolo laundromat -- Manoa Valley Theatre ghosts -- On sleeping with kittens -- After sleeping with Evelyn -- Last eyes -- Flambé Amore -- Anyway -- III. LOVE & MOLESTATION -- Royal flush -- Four poems for Lucretia -- Death in space -- Downtown hotel, Saturday morning -- Sometimes -- The child molester -- The werewolf -- What I like about a blindman -- I knew a woman discontent -- An attempt to console (for Eve) -- Poets will marry anything -- IV. SO PERFECTLY FORGOTTEN -- Why the eyes close in love -- An autumnal conclusion -- Toward green -- Prelude -- Peach petals -- For my sleeping wife, who insists I study FORTRAN -- Cat -- In the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History (natron) -- In the Senckenberg M of Natural History (formaldehyde) -- Pauline -- Trying to remember her name