Desert Run: Poems and Stories (1988 Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press edition) (Q6261)
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1988 edition, published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Latham, NY
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| English | Desert Run: Poems and Stories (1988 Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press edition) |
1988 edition, published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, Latham, NY |
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DESERT RUN | [ornament] | POEMS AND STORIES | [ornament] | MITSUYE YAMADA | [line] | KITCHEN TABLE: Women of Color Press | [ornament]
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Published in the United States by Kitchen Table: Women of Color | Press, Inc., Post Office Box 908, Latham, NY 12110.
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This printing of Desert Run is supported by a grant from the Literature | Program of The National Endowment for the Arts.
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Copyright © 1988 by Mitsuye Yamada
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For my brothers | Mike, Tosh, and Joe
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0913175137
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[1 of 5] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | I would like to thank Sarie Munemitsu Hylkema of the Multi- | cultural Women Writers for being a patient sounding board during the | evolution of some of these pieces and Dr. Katharine Newman, founder | of MELUS, Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States, for her |
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[2 of 5] meticulous reading of my manuscript and her forthright and invaluable | comments. | I would like to thank Nellie Wong, Merle Woo and the late Karen | Brodine for their strength of spirit in their political activism providing a | creative impulse for some of these poems; Flo McAlary for opening up | the desert world to me; and Peggy Boegeman for her continuous |
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[3 of 5] encouragement as well as prodigious work with the Humanities Council | making ethnic writings, including my poems, more accessible to | students throughout the country. I would like to thank Allie Light and | Irving Saraf for filming a version of "I Learned to Sew" in "Mitsuye and | Nellie" before I recognized its potential.
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[4 of 5] I would like to thank those Asian American writers who walked | the lonely path before me and others who continue to write against all | odds: Sui Sin Far, Toshio Mori, Hisaye Yamamoto, Monica Sone, | Maxine Hong Kingston, Janice Mirikitani and many others. | I would like to thank my mother, Hide Yasutake, and my mother- |
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[5 of 5] in-law, Nabe Iha, for their inspired lives; and finally, my husband, | Yoshikazu, and our children and grandchildren (Jeni and Phil, Stephen | and Sharon, Kai and Hedi, Aaron and Jason) for making our dreams | for the future possible.
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