This collection of poems, prose poems, and sudden fictions won the 2003 San Diego Book Award for Poetry. It is packed with award winning poems, including poems that won the Robert Browning Society
This book is packed with award winning poems, including poems that won the Robert Browning Society Award, The Academy of American Poets Award, and the Ann Field Poetry Prize.
Excerpt
Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.
Professional Reviews
Review by Maxine Hong Kingston
I recognize Kirby Wright as one of my own people, the citizens of the Pacific Rim. His heart is in Hawaii and California, aina and querencia. His fresh new voice sings love and concern for the beings along the shores and in the parks and gardens—and in the cities.
Review by Joseph W. Bean, MAUI WEEKLY
Wright's talent for seeing and naming the essence of a place is a talent born in Hawaii, in ALOHA AINA, the love of the land in which a person has roots and hopes.
Review by Rudolfo Anaya
Kirby Wright's poetry has always driven to the heart of the land and the people.
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
