Before the City: Selected Poems & Prose - Softcover

Wright, Kirby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974106704 ISBN 13: 9780974106700

Publisher: Lemon Shark Press, 2003

Synopsis

"I recognize Kirby Wright as one of my own people, the citizens of the Pacific Rim. His heart is in Hawaii and California, aina and querencia. His fresh new voice sings love and concern for the beings along the shores and in the parks and gardens—and in the cities."—Maxine Hong Kingston

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About the Author

Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Honolulu Weekly Nonfiction Award, the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic. His futuristic thriller THE END, MY FRIEND: Prelude to the Apocalypse was released in Fall 2013.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lemon Shark Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974106704
• ISBN 13: 9780974106700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 170