Poetry. Asian American Studies. "As if through an echolocation of brilliant and insistent off-rhyme, these poems effect a delicate placement of self into body, body into world, world into word. And at the center of it all is an even more delicate loss. Janine Oshiro's PIER takes its measure in precise instances that ache with intelligence. A truly masterful first book"—Cole Swensen.
Author City: KANEOHE, HI USA
Janine Oshiro holds degrees from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University), Portland State University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon's Literary Arts. She lives in Hawaii and teaches at Windward Community College.