A Field Guide to the Wildlife of Suburban O'ahu

Poetry. "I love to get the news from a world separate and distinct from mine, so it has been with great pleasure that I have spent a Nebraska morning reading Joseph Stanton's thoughtful, colorful and even exotic poems from Hawaii"--Ted Kooser. "A FIELD GUIDE TO THE WILDLIFE OF SUBURBAN O'AHU...turns a keen eye to [the poet's] most immediate surroundings and finds meaning, even magic, in every mundane corner of contemporary Hawaii life. Within his accessible yet subtly complex poems,...
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Poetry. "I love to get the news from a world separate and distinct from mine, so it has been with great pleasure that I have spent a Nebraska morning reading Joseph Stanton's thoughtful, colorful and even exotic poems from Hawaii"--Ted Kooser. "A FIELD GUIDE TO THE WILDLIFE OF SUBURBAN O'AHU...turns a keen eye to [the poet's] most immediate surroundings and finds meaning, even magic, in every mundane corner of contemporary Hawaii life. Within his accessible yet subtly complex poems, man and nature gnaw at each other's boundaries, and divisions of indigenous and introduced fade into imperceptible seams"--Michael Tsai.