Garrett Hongo

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name = Garrett Hongo


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birthdate = 1951
birthplace = Volcano, Hawai'i
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occupation = poet
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notableworks = "The River of Heaven" "Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i""
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awards = Pulitzer finalist; Oregon Book Award; Guggenheim, NEA and Rockefeller Fellowships


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Garrett Hongo (born 1951, Volcano, Hawai'i) is a Japanese American poet. He has attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.

Hongo has published two books of poetry: "Yellow Light" (1982) and "The River of Heaven" (1988), which was a Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, "Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i" (1995), was awarded the 2006 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Hongo has also worked as an editor on "Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi" (1994) and on "The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America" (1993).

Hongo has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

References

* Calabrese, Joseph, and Susan Tchudi, eds. Diversity: Strength and Struggle. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. 20.
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/166 Academy of American Poets bio] (accessed March 2008)
* [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hongo/hongo.htm Modern American Poetry page] (accessed March 2008)

See also

*List of Asian American writers
*List of people from Hawaii

Critical studies

#"Postcolonial Romanticisms: Landscape and the Possibilities of Inheritance in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid, Garrett Hongo and Derek Walcott" By: Kamada, Roy Osamu; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006 Jan; 66 (7): 2573. U of California, Davis, 2005. (dissertation abstract)
#"Spaces and Places in Motion: Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature" By: Schröder, Nicole. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr; 2006. 257 pp. (book)
#Garrett Kaoru Hongo By: Fonseca, Anthony J.. pp. 117-22 IN: Madsen, Deborah L. (ed. and introd.); "Asian American Writers". Detroit, MI: Gale; 2005. xxiv, 460 pp. (book article)
#Theorizing Difference in Asian American Poetry Anthologies By: McCormick, Adrienne; "MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States", 2004 Fall-Winter; 29 (3-4): 59-80. (journal article)
#Cultural Recuperation in Garrett Hongo's "The River of Heaven" By: Sato, Gayle K.; "Studies in American Literature" (Kyoto, Japan), 2001 Feb; 37: 57-74. (journal article)
#Beyond Lot's Wife: The Immigration Poems of Marilyn Chin, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura By: Slowik, Mary; "MELUS", 2000 Fall-Winter; 25 (3-4): 221-42. (journal article)
#Twilight Conversations: Multicultural Dialogue By: Witonsky, Trudi. pp. 217-29 IN: Ghymn, Esther Mikyung (ed. and introd.); "Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present". New York, NY: Peter Lang; 2000. xii, 265 pp. (book article)
#Garrett Hongo By: Filipelli, Laurie. Boise, ID: Boise State U; 1997. 55 pp. (book)
#An Interview with Garrett Hongo By: Colley, Sharon E.; "Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature", 1996 Summer; 4: 47-63. (journal article)
#The Volcano Inside By: Jarman, Mark; "The Southern Review", 1996 Spring; 32 (2): 337-43. (journal article)
# Garrett Kaoru Hongo By: Drake, Barbara. pp. 133-36 IN: Gwynn, R. S. (ed. and introd.); "American Poets since World War II: Third Series". Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale; 1992. xvi, 348 pp. (book article)
# "This Wooden Shack Place": The Logic of an Unconventional Reading By: Hull, Glynda; "College Composition and Communication", 1990 Oct; 41 (3): 287-98. (journal article)