Pitt Poetry The Ninth Island: Poems, (Paperback)

For half a century, people from Hawai'i have called Las Vegas "The Ninth Island." First the product of relentless advertising from casinos and airlines, now a strange truth as so many have left the islands to make lives in the desert.<i> The Ninth </i>Island follows Yim's family and their years of displacement, from childhood homes to the far western edges of O'ahu, into the delirious heat of Southern Nevada. With humor, clear-eyed rage, and an abiding tenderness, Yim's wandering poems craft makeshift homes across an unfamiliar American landscape. <br>The book's second movement speaks across time to the poet's paternal great-grandmother--born on O'ahu in the era of Chinese Exclusion and paper children then exiled to China, her documents sold to another girl--tracing an intergenerational arc of inheritance and return. Politically and emotionally capacious, <i> The Ninth Island </i>reckons with familial silences, hoop dreams, intertwining griefs, and the settler-colonial forces acting upon Hawai'i and the world. As impossible and necessary as an island in the desert, <i> The Ninth Island </i>marks the arrival of a fabulous new literary voice.

• Pitt Poetry The Ninth Island: Poems, (Paperback)
• Author: Andrew Chi Keong Yim
• ISBN: 9780822968719
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-02-09
• Page Count: 128