Poetry.In NEWS OF HOME, Debra Dean deals with the immigrant experience, home thoughts, and childhood mislestones. Poems of departure from the islands to northwest and southeast mainland actualities round out a bountiful collection. ..Kang Dean thinks big, sharing a sense of her life as it arcs from O'ahu across the Pacific to the mainland United States. A poet reconciling words, doing honor to the language, telling us what it means to be alive 'free to look in both directions, behind us and ahead, ' she is a valued resource. With her first book, she makes a memorable and exciting debut. Bravo!--Colette Inez