Love Works

by Mirikitani, Janice

• ISBN13: 9781931404020
• ISBN10: 193140402X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: City Lights Foundation

Summary

This impressive collection brings together Mirikitani's strongest poems on a diversity of subjects: the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the fragility and challenges of family relationships, and the quest by people at the margins of society to claim justice, bread and dignity. Also included is her long inaugural essay in which she discusses how poetry can connect people and transform lives. Janice Mirikitani is the author of three books of poetry. She has, over the past 35 years, created and directed programs for young people and people in need at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

Table of Contents

The Power of Poetry (Inaugural Address)	p. 9
Yes. We Are Not Invisible	p. 19
Poetry for the People	p. 21
His Dominion	p. 24
The Storm is Passing	p. 25
Breaking Silence	p. 29
Generations of Women	p. 34
For a Daughter Who Leaves	p. 43
Oshogatsu	p. 45
Dancing the Two Step	p. 47
Shadow in Stone	p. 49
The Visit	p. 54
Rabbit Hunting	p. 57
Kamikaze on a Clothesline	p. 59
Roberta	p. 64
The Moth in the Closet	p. 67
The Storyteller	p. 70
Bad Women	p. 72
Delicious	p. 75
Lessons	p. 78
Girlfriend	p. 82
A Longer Tanka	p. 85
You Bring Out the "B" In Me	p. 86
Soul Food	p. 89
Iron Butterfly	p. 91
The Singing	p. 94
Ghost of the I Hotel	p. 98
Appetite	p. 102
What is Possible	p. 104
Soldier	p. 106
Not Silent	p. 108
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