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Ocean of Clouds: Poems

Ocean of Clouds: Poems

Hongo, Garrett

Hardcover

Asian American StudiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0593802039
ISBN13: 9780593802038
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
NAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY THE New Yorker - In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.

In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop (An oil slick from a yacht . . . / Spread rainbows on the water, an aleph / curving toward us) or hanging out and playing LPs with the late, great poet Michael Harper, or watching his daughter in the sun with a halo of messy twelve-year-old's hair, or listening to the sea, which speaks to him in so many places: at the Wai'ōpae Tidepools, at Cassis, at Divi Bay in Saint Martin, where, he tells us, I thought of writing to the soul of Nâzim Hikmet, / saying loving a woman was like writing a book-- / . . . it is love's body on which you write a page of kisses . . .

These poems of cloudy moons and sandstone cliffsides, the black glass of lava shattered into sands, waves surging, and stories of a poet's gratitude for the journey he has made, come together to make a paean against forgetting.

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