Island

Him Mark Lai

earliest edition we have, 1980 University of Washington Press, 1999 paperback 174 pages

In this revised edition sixty-nine poems in the main text have been combined with the sixty-six poems in the appendix into one section. Chinese poems that have been found on the walls of the immigration stations at Ellis Island in New York ad Victoria, B.C. in Canada are also included. Charles Egan, David Chuenyan Lai, Marlon K. Hom, and Ellen Yeung helped with the new translations and corrected any errors in the poe...

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Island edition · 2014 · University of Washington Press · 368 pages · 9780295994079
Island paperback · 1999 · University of Washington Press · 174 pages · 9780295971094
Island edition · 1980 · Hoc Doi (History of Chinese Detained on Island) : distributed by San Francisco Study Center · 174 pages

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