World Literature Today, July 1st, 2003
Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 2002. 111 pages, ill. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-00791-3
ENJOY Maxine Hong Kingston's To Be the Poet and accept with utter satisfaction that she has been awarded the rare title "Living Treasure of Hawai'i." This short, marvelous book records Kingston's contribution to Harvard's famed Massey Lecture Series on the history of American civilization, which she delivered in 2000. Once again, her work defies categories and genres, just as The Woman Warrior long ago obscured the boundaries between autobiography and fiction.
To Be the Poet delightfully discombobulates t...
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