Poetry. Photographs. Asian American Studies. L.A.-bred photographer Kenneth Williams teams with Canadian poet Wallace Gagne to distill the essence of their Japanese experience. Both are longtime residents of Japan with Japanese wives. A sample poem: "Walls and barriers/holding us in, keeping us out/Rule and negation/telling us, stay back, don't try/Beware the wildimpulse/to break free, flight impossible./Outrageous nets, there but/not there/Reach beyond the stars/Be the angel in flight/the quest finding its way/the steel flower blossoming"