Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Bus by Gizelle Gajelonia

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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 Hawai'i's history and geography, routes through American poetry, routes through languages spoken in Hawai'i. 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 Hawai'i's last queen, Lili'uokalani, Filipina nurses, and an honor's thesis writer very like the author who dreams of Columbia University.

Publisher : Tinfish Press (April 1, 2010)
Language : English
Staple Bound : 37 pages
ISBN-10 : 0982420323
ISBN-13 : 978-0982420324
Item Weight : 2.99 ounces
Dimensions : 5.47 x 0.12 x 9.45 inches