Here are the Hawaii Book and Music Festival Word Bag winners.
Bamboo Ridge Press’ latest issue (#96) is a collection called No Choice but to Follow. The title is a canny play on the book’s concept: a series of linked poems done in a year’s span by seasoned writers Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet S. Kono, Ann Inoshita and Christy Passion. Each of the Japanese linked-verses (renshi) was originally posted online on a weekly basis in celebration of the publishing house’s 30th anniversary.
Four writers link 48 poems in a Japanese art form known as renshi
The voices of four O’ahu poets who spent a year penning a chain of interlocking verses fill "No Choice but to Follow," a collection slated for release this month by Bamboo Press.
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No Choice but to Follow
New book/CD combo: No Choice but to Follow
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Renshi poets record the CD that accompanies their book No Choice but to Follow