Tinfish Retro Chapbook #12

1 5 _ C H I N E S E _ S I L E N C E S
Essays by Timothy Yu • March 2012 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

Timothy Yu writes: "These poems are part of an ongoing project called 100 Chinese Silences. They were begun in response to Billy Collins's poem 'Grave.' The speaker of the poem describes the 'one hundred kinds of silence / according to the Chinese belief,' but then admits at the end of the poem that these Chinese silences were something he had 'just made up.' I took it upon myself to write these 100 Chinese silences." Yu inhabits Collins's poems, reversing their fields, creating witty counter-poems to those of Collins, who frequently alludes very loosely (indeed) to Chinese culture. Here is wit as critique, satire as antidote to the mischief that is found in many contemporary poems (as in media responses to Jeremy Lin).

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #11

P R I N C E S S _ A B A N D O N E D
Essays by Kim Hyesoon • Translated by Don Mee Choi • February 2012 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

Tinfish's eleventh Retro Chapbook presents three brief essays by prominent Korean feminist poet, Kim Hyesoon. These essays are about being a woman poet in a patriarchal society. But they are not about the everyday struggles of the poet; instead, they engage issues of femininity and inspiration by way of shaman songs and heroine myths. And so "it becomes possible to explain why the women-poets of South Korea enjoy overlapping the space of the real with the space of illusions."

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Get both Princess Abandoned and Hyesoon's other Tinfish publication When the Plug Gets Unplugged (also translated by Don Mee Kim) for $10. Follow the purchase link to take advantage of this two-for-one deal.

Tinfish Retro Chapbook #10

T H E _ G U L A G _ A R K I P E L A G O
By Sean Labrador y Manzano • January 2012 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

The tenth installment of our Retro Chapbook Series presents Sean Labrador y Manzano's three sestinas, “Death to All Drug Traffickers,” “Male Order,” and “Mycorrhizal.” Manzano's imagination roams from Longinus to Marcos, baseball to Martial Law, passports to Sin, pineapples to puddles. Substitute Manzano for Ashbery in the following sentence by Joseph Conte (from Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry), and you've got the gist of his use and abuse of the sestina: “Ashbery's renovation of the sestina form is extensive and complete—he knocks layers of old thematic plaster off the brick walls of structure.” Manzano knocks off (as it were) layers of plaster to reveal a wobbling foundation of totalitarianism and diaspora. He writes that, “The roots of my 'Gulag Arkipelago' originates with how the Spanish used the Philippines as a penal colony. Similar to Australia.”

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #9

_ T H O U    S A N D _
By Michael Farrell • December 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

"Perhaps more than any other recent Australian poet, Michael Farrell has tested, often tauntingly, the loving struggle of meaning and chance, played out in much contemporary Australian poetry," writes Michael Brennan. But in _thou sand_, Farrell refuses to leave chance to chance, mining the meanings located in syllables, enjambed words. His method is to increase meaning through the reduction of words to their spare parts. Hence, lines like "tion from the beau:" spring into phrases, "no sa: / tis: / fac:/ tion from the beau: / ti: / ful" where syntax becomes suspenseful, the sentence an unfolding into flow from utter syn: co: pa: tion!

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #8

O N E _ P E T A L _ R O W
By Jaimie Gusman • November 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

The Anyjar of Jaimie Gusman's marvelous sequence is at once Mason jar, feeling jar, urn, tomb, sex organ, sister, foundling jar, interlocutor . . . the beauty of the jar is its openness and its promise (at least) of safety. The Anyjar provides an opticon through which the poet sees her world, ajar, even as it is also sometimes nothing: “the Anyjar is not the other half. / The Anyjar is not even part of. . . / The Anyjar is not a negative or positive of that.” Gusman's poetry is at once meditative and surreal, well-crafted and more than a little bit wild. Warning: this work contains word play! “Picking up after this thing on the couch / makes me aware of my composition”; “My hands are something like a frozen pudding pop; it's winter, unaware of time but bound by it; I am a sucker for the swirl of any claims to be distinct.” And much more!.

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #7

Y O U R S _ T R U L Y _ & _ O T H E R _ P O E M S
By Xi Chuan • Translated by Lucas Klein • October 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

“Drink a bellyful of cold water and you'll drown all the voices in your head,” writes Xi Chuan. Harder to quiet the voices one hears echoing from Xi's new chapbook. The poet over-hears and over-sees; these poems are shards of the zeitgeist overheard through as many walls as you can construct against your noisy neighbor's television set. The title poem reveals Xi Chuan's Whitmanian reach; turn over in your bed and he will be the presence beside you. If you want to sample the work of an important contemporary Chinese poet, this chapbook provides an excellent place to start.

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #6

L I G A T U R E _ S T R A I N
By Kim Koga • September 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

Kim Koga has most likely written the chapbook on beaver birthing. Never certain if "you" are the beaver or the reader, you find yourself inside the beaver's skin, her womb, pulling at her teats. You also find yourself doused in beaver blood while taking a shower downstream. Like Kim Hyesoon (whose Tinfish chapbook, translated by Don Mee Choi, can be found here) writes about human beings by writing as rats, Koga examines the human surround by placing us in intimate contact with an animal with whom we do—and do not—identify. This is a book to be read as "echo location" or "lactation." Quirky, fertile writing.

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #5

Y E L L O W
By Margaret Rhee • August 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

The fifth Tinfish Retro Chapbook in a year-long series, Margaret Rhee's Yellow is at once sexy and statistical, playful and critical. There are lists and lyrics and a closing index, which points to the full range of her concerns: gender, transgender, race, sex and sexuality. While Rhee lists Audre Lorde, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Adrienne Rich under the category of "Women Warrior Poets," she might include herself among them. Yellow, despite the negative connotation of the word, is a courageous piece of writing.

Tinfish Retro Chapbook #4

M A O ' S _ P E A R S
By Kenny Tanemura • July 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

In Kenny Tanemura's rendering of him, Mao is hardly an all-powerful leader, or icon. Instead, he walks down the street, encounters the poet in his kitchen, offers a friend romantic advice, thinks about Filipino literature, suffers from indigestion. He is muse to a poet who thinks about many of the same things, who reports on conversations with Mao as if they were as ordinary as pears. An assemblage more than an historical figure, his figure shadows everything that happens in this collection. Tanemura writes with a deft wit, in whimsical but pointed verse.

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #3

T H E _ P R I M O R D I A L _ D E N S I T Y _
P E R T U R B A T I O N
By Stephen Collis • June 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

This is a small book about catastrophe. Catastrophes in play are environmental, political, cultural. Vancouver poet, Stephen Collis, makes quick weaves of contemporary language—lexicons of fashion, violence, economics, media-speak, poetics, disaster. His word-sprint reveals the paradoxical richness and paucity of our lingo, rich in material, yet poverty-stricken as a solution-narrative to what ails us. A formidable poet-critic, Collis writes critical poetry about the contemporary world, pulling in with his seine everything from Tahrir Square to the Pacific plastic patch. It's quite a catch.

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #2

T O N T O ' S _ R E V E N G E
By Adam Aitken • May 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

Tonto's Revenge, composed of poems written by Adam Aitken during his term as Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, is something of a Thai-Australian version of Ed Dorn's Gunslinger. The poet, masquerading sometimes as Tonto, sometimes as Charlie Chan, meets a Sheriff; they face off over everything from tourism to nostalgia to departmental hiring. Along the way, the poet meets the Rabbit Lady of Honolulu, laments the death of Danno (James MacArthur of the original Hawai`i 5-0), and gathers in many of Honolulu's voices off buses and from the city parks burgeoning with homeless persons. “You want to shout Fuck Tourism,” Aitken writes, “but that would be nostalgic.”

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Tinfish Retro Chapbook #1

S A Y _ T H R O N E
By Noʻu Revilla • April 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

The first in Tinfish's series of 12 retro chapbooks—made inexpensively and in short runs—is Say Throne, by Noʻu Revilla, who describes herself as follows, "Noʻukahauʻoli is rooted in Maui, while pursuing her Cultural Studies scholarship in Oʻahu at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa. Her palapala is based on Native women's voices and indigenous storytelling. And like her kūpuna said: 'I wai noʻu.'" The designer for these upcoming books is Eric Butler.

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Say Throne will be followed most immediately by a series of poems written by Adam Aitken while he served as UHM's Distinguished Visiting Writer this past autumn.

Each chapbook can be purchased for a donation of $3 to Tinfish Press; you can pre-order all 12 for $36. (Of course you're also welcome to throw in a few extra dollars so that we can send out review copies and give writers more copies of their own chapbooks.)

T H I R T E E N _ W A Y S _ O F _ L O O K I N G _
A T _ T H E _ B U S
By Gizelle Gajelonia • 2010 • $12
Design by Sumet (Ben) Viwatmanitsakul

In Thirteen Ways of Looking at TheBus, Gizelle Gajelonia discovers her muse in Honolulu's TheBus mass transit system. She takes seriously (in this seriously funny chapbook) the notion of routes—routes through Hawaiʻi's history and geography, routes through American poetry, routes through languages spoken in Hawaiʻi.. Many of the pieces parody canonical poems by T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, and Eric Chock. Out of her parodies come marvelous revisions. Among the figures included in Gajelonia's revised canon are Hawaiʻi's last queen, Liliʻuokalani, Filipina nurses, and an honor's thesis writer very like the author who dreams of Columbia University.
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C H A R L O T T E ' S _ W A Y
by Norman Fischer • 20 pages • accordion style • 2008 • $12
Design by Terri Wada

Norman Fischer’s long poem takes as its place Charlotte’s Way, a house on the California coast, but mostly the poem takes things in. Fischer, a Zen priest, meditates on talk, the passing of time, the brain, catness, bills to be paid, poems, search parties, birds and myriad other subjects as they flicker in and out of thought. Terri Wada’s design emphasizes the fluidity of Fischer’s thinking; rather than turning from one page to the next, the chapbook opens out, filling both space and time.
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F A R O U T _ L I B R A R Y _ S O F T W A R E
by Maged Zaher and Pam Brown • 2007 • 27 pages • $10
Design by Chae Ho Lee

The collaboration between Pam Brown (Australia) and Maged Zaher (Seattle) came about due to the absence of a poem. Maged sent Pam a submission to Jacket, of which Pam is associate editor. But Maged forgot to enclose the poem. In an effort to atone, Maged proposed a collaboration between them; this collaboration was to last for a year and a half and comprise the poems published in this chapbook. The collaboration is seamless; even Pam attests she could no longer tell whose writing was whose as she proof-read. Among the poems' subjects: change, constant change of jobs, friends, cities, and of course the software with which we mark time's passing.
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S O M E D A Y _ I ' L L _ B E _
S I T T I N G _ I N _ A _ D I N G Y _ B A R
by Hwang Jiwoo • 2007   $10
Translated by Scott Swaner & Young-Jun Lee
Designed by Gaye Chan

Hwang Jiwoo's poems are built of odd juxtapositions and comparisons, like a mother's hospital crisis and “the Verona World Cup,” its happily hopping soccer ball; “the waning day, the black cow moaning inside the gate”; “Mormon missionaries [who] enter the subway like penguins”; acacias waving “their white handkerchiefs.” Whatever is metaphysical in Hwang's poems is also intensely physical, like the dingy bar alluded to in the title. Young-Jun Lee and the late Scott Swaner have performed deft and conversational translations of this provocative work.
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This book has been published with the generous assistance of the Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature, Korea Institute, and Harvard University.

C O R P S E _ W A T C H I N G
by Sarith Peou  • 2007   $12
Forward by Ed Bok Lee
Designed by Lian Lederman with photographs from Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of Cambodians were killed by the Khmer Rouge (images provided by the Cambodia Documentation Center).

In Corpse Watching, Sarith Peou offers witness to the Cambodian holocaust of the late 1970s, which he survived, in language at once dispassionate and evocative. Upwards of a quarter of all Cambodians died between 1975 and 1979: “The river is swollen / The current is strong / Corpses float by all day long.” As poet Ed Bok Lee writes in his forward to the book, “Beyond telling, in total, a personal story of devastation under Angkar, these poems serve as steadfast interpreters for a multiplicity of voices and intensely human emotions still seeping out of that nation’s deepest wounds.”
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Corpse Watching has been used as required reading at California College of the Arts.

L A N G U A G E _ A S _
R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
by Leonard Schwartz • 2006 • $12
Design by Lian Lederman

This hand-sewn chapbook contains three parts:
1) in which the Israel poet Aharon Shabtai offers witness.
2) in which a publishing vision emerges from the rich sources mingling in Jerusalem.
3) a verse essay on poetic form in America by Leonard Schwartz that argues responsibility is the ability to respond.
Language as Responsibility is something of a departure for Tinfish Press, as its context is the Middle East, not the Pacific. But its author, who now lives in Washington State, argues forcefully for a poetics of publishing that crosses boundaries of language and difference (in this instance Arabic and Hebrew, Palestine and Israel). Such crossings fit Tinfish’s philosophy, hence this beautiful chapbook.
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2 _ P O E M S _ B Y _ B R A D A J O (with CD)
by Jozuf Bradajo Hadley • 2006 • $14
Design by Gaye Chan

Bradajo, one of the pioneers of local Hawai`i literature in Pidgin (Hawaiian Creole English), writes poems in an idiosyncratic and artful calligraphy. His is wisdom poetry, composed of runic strings of words: like "fo / get / dem / salf / imijes / man" or like "pooo / chooo / mai / neen / nooo / chrol".
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin 12/20/2001)
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A C H I N G _ F O R _
M A N G O _ F R I E N D S
by Jacinta Galea'i • 2006 • $10
Design by Yoko Hattori

Jacinta Galea'i has written a 'novel' that is also a sequence of 'poems', calling her genres into question at every turn. She has written a book in English and Samoan, one that straddles, with equal courage and precision, geographic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Aching for Mango Friends offers up a part of this (as yet unpublished) novel/poem to readers interested in experimental writing, writing from the Pacific, and intersections between Samoa and the USA.
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W H E N _ T H E _ P L U G _
G E T S _ U N P L U G G E D
Poems by Kim Hyesoon
Translation by Don Mee Choi • 2005 • $8
Design by Michael Cueva

The poems in When the Plug Gets Unplugged, by prominent Korean poet, Kim Hyesoon, are spoken by rats, rats who forage, rats endangered by human beings, rats who listen to people die in a collapsing department store--rats who are, in other words, the voices of modern Seoul, or (to risk the pun) the modern soul. Kim Hyesoon's work is only know receiving the attention it deserves in the United States, due to the efforts of her fine translator, Don Mee Choi. Anyone interested in poetry from Korea, or poetry written in a distinctive voice, should read this collection.
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B R O A D S I D E
By Kimo Armitage and Michael Puleloa • 2005 • $0
Design by Gaye Chan
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G R O W I N G _ S T I L L
By Deborah Meadows • 2005 • $8
Design by Nick Hunsinger

"To write so that years later you can't recall the diaristic particulars of that day, recapture only a sense, a fractured tooth of that day." Deborah Meadows's prose poetry meditation, Growing Still reflects a life lived, and then reflected upon, one that exists in inextricable detail and is then rendered as abstraction. In this eloquent sequence of meditations Meadows reflects on time, war, work, justice, and other issues of these days. Meadows's lyrical prose is at once beautiful and sharp-edged.
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C O M P O S I T E _ D I P L O M A C Y
By Padcha Tuntha-obas • 2005 • $9
Design by Tomi Ponciano

There are poems and there are poems translated into another language. Composite Diplomacy presents us with a further possibility, presenting a poem, its translation, as well as sentence diagrams, lexicons, and musical scores in one package. To read this poem is also to read the poem in the process of translation from a language built on tones to one without, from a language in one alphabet to one with another. The result is a forensic investigation not simply of this poem's translation, but of the very notion of translation. Padcha Tuntha-obas offers her reader a "wakeful poetry" that inspires such marvelous poetic interventions. “Time that travels sings concurrently to the path of letters.“
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S U R G I C A L _ B R U - E Z
by Sherman Souther • 2005 • $10
Design by Lee Vanderkooi

Bruits are abnormal sounds, at least for doctors. In Surgical Bru-ez, retired surgeon turned Kauai poet Sherman Souther takes those sounds apart and restitches them. He uses the prose poem form to meditate variously on “the mysteries of surgeons,” dogs, landscapes, art, ageing, sexuality, and much else. This is Souther’s first chapbook.
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P O R T R A I T S : P A R A B L E S
by Susan M. Schultz • 2005 • $3
Design by Josh Drechsler

Click on a website about left-handedness and get pornography. Answer the telephone to find the BTK strangler may have stolen one of your poems. Encounter a disgraced local politician now working in scrap. Look at photos—of Abu Ghraib, of a former child star, of an as-yet-unadopted child. Experiences like these inspired Schultz to write studies of [the] contemporary character.
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A _ D R A G _ Q U E E N _ N A M E D _ P I P I
And Other Poems: Fagogo ma Solo
By Dan Taulapapa McMullin • 2004 • [out of print but available for free]
Design by James Nakamura

A Drag Queen Named Pipi is peopled by ghosts and other souls, from Moana (the Ocean), to an American soldier dead in Iraq, to Sinalela, "an ex-rugy player consigned to household duties," among many. His poems combine real and phantasmagoric events to elucidate, among other themes, issues of sexuality and colonialism. McMullin's poems are presented in conversation with James Nakamura's design, featuring undersea imagery.
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R A D I A N T _ F I E L D
By Naomi Long • 2004 • $9
Design by Mike Sarpy

The lyrical prose poems in Naomi Long's Radiant Field offer the reader geographical and spiritual visions, an unmapped desert on which the narrator of this extended sequence walks without a map, meets, loves, and leaves a man, discovering beauty in desolation. This is Long's first chapbook publication.
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P O E M S _ F R O M _
T H E _ P R I S O N _ D I A R Y _
O F _ H O _ C H I _ M I N H
freely translated by Steve Bradbury • 2003 • $10
Design by Karen White

Written during his incarceration by the Chinese in the 1940s, these poems -- at times witty, at other moments despairing -- chronicle Ho's prison life. A fine addition to Tinfish Press's Vietnamese poetry list, this book was translated from the Chinese by Steve Bradbury, a professor at National Central University in Taiwan.
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P H I L T E R
By Normie Salvador • 2003 • $8
Design by Jeff Sanner

Born, raised, and living in Waipahu, on the island of O`ahu, Salvador is decidedly not a local writer. Turning away from local themes of family, history, and culture, Salvador has written a collection of gothic love poems that incorporates mythology and science fiction among its tropes.
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T H E _ 6 0 s _ A N D _ 7 0 s : FROM "THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY DICK"
By Deborah Meadows • 2003 • $10
Design by Stuart Henley

Deborah Meadows reads through Herman Melville's masterpiece, riffing off its concerns, but rendering them in utterly contemporary terms. Her questions, like Melville's, are both physical and metaphysical: "What and where is the mind? / Inscribed upon, see through / a brittle clarity, read through spectacles / that make a skin / over skin"
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N O _ G U N S, _ N O _ D U R I A N [out of print but contained in And then Something Happened from Salt Publishing]
By Susan M. Schultz • 2003 • $7
Design by Ara Paylo

In this chapbook, whose title comes from the Cambodia diaries of Angelina Jolie, Schultz (herself the adoptive mother of a Cambodian child) de-composes some of the stories we tell about family and nation. In place of resemblance, she posits other forms of relation. "What breaks, finally, is blood and its thickness."
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No Guns, No Durian has been used as required reading at the University of Alabama and Notre Dame.

C A R V E D _ W A T E R
By Zhang Er • 2003 • $8
Design by Anne Sakutori

Zhang Er, who was born in Beijing and moved to the USA in 1986, writes in Chinese, then translates her poems into English with various collaborators. "Carved Water" was accomplished with renowned slam poet, Bob Holman, combining her lyricism with his performative panache, the East River with the Yangtze.
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C L U T C H : INCLUDING HOCKEY LOVE LETTERS
By Sawako Nakayasu • 2002 • $7
Design by Jung Kim

Sawako Nakayasu is a graduate of the Brown University writing program and currently lives in Japan.  She co-edits FACTORIAL, a journal devoted to collaborative work.  The recent KENNING cd included her work.
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A _ P I E C E _ O F _ W O R K
By Murray Edmond • 2002 • $7
Design by Ken Lincoln

"A Piece of Work" pays homage to the poet's mother, even as it chronicles moments in the history of New Zealand. A long poem in 80 sections by one of New Zealand's most prominent contemporary poets. Author biography: Murray Edmond's most recent of 8 volumes of poetry before "A Piece of Work" was "Laminations" from Auckland University Press in 2000. He was also one of the three editors, with Alan Brunton and Michele Leggott, of "Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975" (Auckland UP, 2000), an anthology of radical poetry from that time.
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M A T E R I A L _ L Y R I C S
By Susan Schultz • 2002 • $3
Design by Gaye Chan

[out of print but available for free]

A sequence of prose poems that engages both the language of the military and American "diplomacy" during the Vietnam era and first attempts at language by the poet's young son, Sangha, adopted from Cambodia. Designed by Gaye Chan.
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H A M B U R G E R
By Steve Carll • 2002 • $5
Design by Anne Sakutori

A small book about hamburgers that slips into a bright foil hamburger sleeve.  Moral and political provocations abound.
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3 _ V I E T N A M E S E _ P O E T S [out of print but available for free]
Linh Dinh • 2002 • $9
Design by Stuart Henley

out of print but available for

Linh Dinh translates the work of Nguyen Quoc Chanh, Phan Nhien Hao, and Van Cam Hai.
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S I S T A _ T O N G U E
By Lisa Linn Kanae • First Edition 2001 • Second Edition 2008 • $10
Design by Kristin Lipman

Tinfish Press's all-time best-selling book, used in courses at the University of Oregon, the University of Hawai`i, and the University of Washington.  A wonderful meditation on language, "handicap," and the treatment of pidgin speakers in Hawai`i. 
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Sista Tongue has been used as required reading at Willamette College, Lewis and Clark, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, and University of Texas.

P H Y S I C S
&
12 _ S C E N E S _ F R O M _ 1 2 A M
By Lisa Asagi and Gaye Chan • 2001
One for $5 or both for $7

Two poems in prose, presented as maps.
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Physics and 12 Scenes from 12am has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

D E A R _ D A D
By Bill Luoma • 2000 • $6
With art and design by Gaye Chan

Quirky and moving prose elegies to the poet's father
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P A C I F I C _ P O S T M O D E R N
By Rob Wilson • 2000 • $5 [out of print but available here]
Design by KC Mah

An essay that explores the place of Tinfish in the contemporary Pacific, as well as treating settler poetry from Australia, and tourism in Waikiki.  Far ranging, thoughtful, and formally innovative work from an important critic of the Pacific.
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Pacific Postmodern has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of California Santa Cruz

T H I N _ P L A C E [out of print]
By Nell Altizer • $5
Sonnets about Ireland, language, place, and love.

S N A I L M A I L _ P O E M
By Tony Quagliano • $5

V I R T U A L _ F L E A L I T Y [out of print]
red flea • $5
cd version can be ordered from Richard Hamasaki
at <redflea@hawaii.rr.com>

V O I C E - O V E R S
By Susan M. Schultz and John Kinsella • 1997 • $2
Designed by Suzanne Kosanke

Poems exchanged between authors via email during 1996, on subjects in the main fin-de-siecle.  John Kinsella is a major Australian poet, the author of over 20 books of poems and two novels.  He teaches at Cambridge University, Kenyon College, and Edith Cowan University in western Australia.

4- E V A Z , A N N A [out of print]
Kathy Banggo • $5
Written in thick pidgin, this book is set in Wahiawa, Hawai`i; the poems are at once lyrical and brutal, always thought-provoking.

4-evaz, Anna has been used as required reading at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and University of California Santa Cruz