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