Kalamaku Press / Noio & Far Roads Publications

Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and Asia, in Print and Online

Dennis Kawaharada, Editor

email: dennisk@hawaii.edu

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Lā‘ieikawai by S.N. Haleole tells the story of the wooing of a young native chiefess of great beauty and high rank, her fall from grace, and her final deification among the gods. The story was serialized in Hawaiian in 1862-1863 in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa and published as a book in 1863. This edition is a modernized version of the classic Martha W. Beckwith translation, first published in 1919. ISBN-13: 978-1516995226. 144 pages. $12.95.

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(Out of Print at UH Press)

About this book: These are stories of O‘ahu before high rises, freeways and hotels, before sugar plantations and pineapple fields, before churches and Bibles. Culled from the collections of Abraham Fornander (1812-1887) and Thomas G. Thrum (1842-1932), the stories present an ancient history of the island and its first people, telling of the heroes, ancestral spirits, and demigods who performed good works and punished evil-doers. On the Recommended Summer Reading List of Kamehameha Schools.

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Hawaiian Fishing Traditions by Moke Manu and other. Published in 1992 as Hawaiian Fishing Legends. Revised Edition: 2006. 170 pages. $12.95. Click on the cover image or title for more information.

Reviewer’s Comment: “Hawaiian Fishing Legends is another welcome volume to the body of Hawaiian literature. Besides being a good read, this one makes a lot of material available to scholars, teachers and writers. The proper practice of many of the fishing techniques described here may be forgotten, but the legends’ values, characters, and metaphors are not.“ —Tino Ramirez, Honolulu Advertiser, March 1992

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Reviewer’s Comments: “This collection [of essays] tells the stories of a number of Hawaiian places – in itself a very Hawaiian conceept, as the ancient people imbued their ‘aina with great poetic power. Kawaharada has created a work highly useful for students of Hawaii history, but also very readable; it will change and enrich your view of the islands’ landmarks.” — CL, “Best of ‘99 Nonfiction,” Honolulu Advertiser, December 25, 1999.

Reviews

• Stu Dawrs, “Sense of Place.” (Honolulu Weekly. Nov. 17-23, 1999).
• Charlene Luke, “The best of ’99, Nonfiction” (Honolulu Advertiser, Dec. 25, 1999).
• Paul Lyons, Review (Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000).
• Rob Wilson, Review (The Contemporary Pacific. Fall 2000).

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Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai‘i. Dennis Kawaharada. 2004. 200 pages.$13.95. Click on the cover image or title for more information.

• Review: Ragnar Carlson. (Honolulu Weekly. Vol 9, June 8-14, 2005.)
• Readers' Comments

Reviewer’s Comments: In this collection, Dennis Kawaharada, a noted chronicler of native Hawaiian literature, explores the historical and contemporary terrain of his beloved Hawai'i. From a memoir of boyhood days in Kane'ohe to a travelogue from a recent expedition to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, each of these essays weaves Kawaharada's experience into something larger, creating a remarkable tapestry of cultural, personal and natural history. Kawaharada is a gifted essayist--in his hands, the book's title piece becomes in equal parts discussion of the Hawaiian calendar, historical biography of Hawaiian literary figures and exposition on "Moolelo o Pakaa a me Kuapakaa," a native Hawaiian chant ....

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Roads of Oku: Journeys in the Heartland. Dennis Kawaharada. 2015. 224 pages. $15.95.

Summer Grasses, Autumn Wind, An Illustrated Translation of Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" (Oku no Hosomichi"). Dennis Kawaharada. 2018. 180 pages. Color Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1539729808, $36.95; Black and White Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1548867270, $15.95.

A translation of Matsuo Basho's "Narrow Roads of the Deep North" ("Oku no Hosomichi") illustrated with color photos and Edo Period art and maps. The text includes a short biography and notes on literary, cultural, religious, geographical, and lunar-calendrical contexts, along with 262 footnotes notes explaining the details of references to these contexts. The 173 Illustrations include over 100 photographs taken on road trips between 2005-2017 documenting what the places and landscapes mentioned in the text look like today.

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Reviewer’s Comment: ‘Imaikalani Kalahele’s self-named collection of poetry and art, Kalahele, gives utterance the force of an indigenous Pacific voice. The poet sings in mythic songs of friendship and good fellowship, chants of resistance, and rebukes in the utterances of contemporary Hawaiians.... The Hawaiian artist and poet mediates between ancestral knowlege and modern influences in a lace of art and poetry that floats on the currents of the Pacific, across the islands and in space...The collection is a superb display of poetic skills, language use, and appropriation of forms available to the Pacific writer. —Steven Winduo, University of Papua New Guinea, The Contemporary Pacific, Fall 2003.

Sample Poems and Art

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Child of War. Poetry by Genny Lim. 2003. 78 pages. ISBN: 0-9709597-3-7. $10.00. Click on the cover image or title for more information.

Reviewer’s Comment: A deeply moving and affirming work of acceptance and resistance. The poems unfold out of the tragic death of Lim’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Danielle, and expand into the perpetually war-torn world of crisis and uncertainty. This is a rich gathering of sorrow, joy, and affirmation. —David Meltzer, author of San Francisco Beat: Talking with Poets

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