The River of Heaven - Garrett Hongo - Books - Carnegie-Mellon University Press - 9780887483585 - January 9, 2026
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Garrett Hongo
The River of Heaven

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The River of Heaven was awarded the 1987 Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets for a distinguished second book of poems (judges: Philip Booth, Alfred Corn, Mary Oliver). In it Garrett Hongo has drawn from his unusual background (born in Volcano, Hawaii, of Japanese ancestry, and educated in California at Pomona) to provide the materials for poems that would be highly exotic were they not infused with a level-headed sense of realism and a strong feeling that mundane realities are perfectly natural material for the poetry of our time. Here, Garrett Hongo transforms his mundane realities into elegant poetry. The volcanoes of Hawaii, the gritty urban streets of Los Angeles, a California beach after the death of his father?the places of Garrett Hongo?s past metamorphose into a poetry that is compelling and immediate.

67 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 9, 2026
ISBN13 9780887483585
Publishers Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Pages 68
Dimensions 140 × 235 × 5 mm   ·   136 g
Language English  

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