Bamboo Ridge
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Bamboo Ridge is a Hawaii-based literary journal and press founded in 1978 by Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum to publish works by and for the people of Hawaii
. It was named after a popular fishing spot on Oahu http://www.bambooridge.com/danews.asp?n=2.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
is among the writers Bamboo Ridge has published.
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. It was named after a popular fishing spot on Oahu http://www.bambooridge.com/danews.asp?n=2.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is a Japanese-American poet and novelist from Hawaii. Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues...
is among the writers Bamboo Ridge has published.
Further reading
- Reimagining The American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond. By Rob Wilson. Durham: Duke University Press. 2000. ISBN 0-8223-2523-3 (paper); ISBN 0-8223-2500-4 (cloth)
Book publications
- Nakano, Jiro, 'Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology, Honolulu, Hawaii, Bamboo Ridge Press © 1995 ISBN 0-910043-38-8 [104 pp. 103 tankaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
by 103 poets]
- Wang, Wayne, and Diane Mei Lin Mark, Chan is Missing: A Film By Wayne WangWayne WangWayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...
, With Introduction and Screen Notes by Diane Mei Lin Mark (Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1984), ISBN 0-910043-06-X. A special issue of Bamboo Ridge, The Hawaii Writers' Quarterly (the full title at the time), No. 23, Summer 1984.