Last Days Here

Eric Chock’s second poetry collection, both intensely personal and historically expansive, tells of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and return to home and family. Structured in four parts, each section reads as a part of the life cycle and as a sort of poetic historical document, chronicling one man’s experience of Hawaiʻi in the past 40 years. “Last Days Here is a rich collection. Its scope of experience, private and public, is wide and ambitious . . . and the transcendence he [Chock] experiences is not a condition of art alone but of simply being alive and open.”

—The Honolulu Star Bulletin

“Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaiʻi,” selected for the Pushcart Prize XVI, 1991.