Description: Includes poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by indigenous Micronesian authors, presenting over seventy authors and one hundred pieces, and featuring nine of the thirteen basic language groups.
Brief description: Craig Santos Perez, 2023 winner of the National Book Award for poetry, is a Chamoru author and editor from Guam. He was most recently professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Review Quotes: The value of this collection is immeasurable, for both Micronesian readers and others. The need to find oneself and one's culture represented in literature in the face of overwhelming cultural imperialism and Westernization, what coeditor Evelyn Flores (Univ. of Guam) refers to as a "recovery and assertion process," cannot be overstated. And it is past time for non-Micronesians to pay attention to these important voices.-- "CHOICE, December 2019 (Vol. 57 No. 4)"