Alan Chong Lau
Description
Alan Chong Lau’s poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle’s Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America—a
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world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor.
With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people’s humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans—native-born, refugee, and migrant—are today.
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Genres
History
Tags
Poetry
Reading Moods
Playful & Lighthearted
Contributors
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Publishing Info
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Month-Year
Apr, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780824823238
ISBN-10: 0824823230
Language
English
No. of Pages
136
Format
Paperback
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