Five poems by Garrett Hongo

Garrett Hongo’s writing is rooted in beauty and emotion. The creative writing [https://crwr.uoregon.edu/?utm_source=immersive&utm_campaign=Hongo_Aiken_Award] professor is a master of translating feelings from his past into vibrant literature. In Kahuku, a Hawaiian town on the north shore of Oʻahu where he spent his early childhood, Hongo was surrounded by

At the age of fourteen, during my last year in junior high school in Gardena, I began to realize that if I were ever to get a date I ’d have to revolutionize my musical point of reference. The faux folk music and light pop I ’d once cherished had to be exchanged for something completely different. I was among

Garrett Hongo, a professor of poetry at the University of Oregon, ... has spent the last few decades searching for the perfect hi-fi system. His book “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo” is itself a stereo recording, with autobiography in one channel and his search for the best sound in the other—a search that involves learning about different kinds

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I expected poet-essayist Garrett Hongo’s “The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo [https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B093YTQR8Z&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_JXYY6VN7NWAK89TX3KEC&tag=thewaspos09-20] ” to recount the author’s obsession with finding and building the ideal listening equipment. But it turns out you don’t