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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rekdal, Paisley, author.     Subjects     Railroads -- United States -- Poetry.     Railroads -- United States -- Essays.     Chinese -- United States -- Poetry.     Chinese -- United States -- Essays.     Railroad construction workers -- United States -- Poetry.     Railroad construction workers -- United States -- Essays.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rekdal, Paisley, author.       by title:      West : a translation...         MARC Display

West : a translation / Paisley Rekdal. by Rekdal, Paisley, author. Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023] Subjects Railroads -- United States -- Poetry.   Railroads -- United States -- Essays.   Chinese -- United States -- Poetry.   Chinese -- United States -- Essays.   Railroad construction workers -- United States -- Poetry.   Railroad construction workers -- United States -- Essays. ISBN:  9781556596568 (paperback) : 1556596561 (paperback) : Description:  x, 178 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (color) ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation--an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad's completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). Carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station, where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained, is a poem elegizing a detainee who committed suicide. As West translates this anonymous Chinese elegy character by character, what's left is a haunting narrative distilled through the history and lens of transcontinental railroad workers, and a sweeping exploration of the railroad's cultural impact on America. Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms, and documents, West explores what unites and divides America, and how our ideas about American history creep forward, even as the nation itself constantly threatens to spiral back."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hanapepe Public Library Adult Nonfiction 818.609 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 818.609 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 818.609 Rekdal Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 818.609 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 818.609 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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