November 07, 2003

Meeting up with Maxine Hong Kingston in La Jolla, California

Maxine Hong Kingston was my first ever creative writing instructor, and she introduced me to the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Allen Ginsberg, and Merwin at the East-West Center Conference back in Spring Semester, 1979. Yes, I am ancient. Anyway, Maxine gave me a blurb for my poetry book BEFORE THE CITY, now available at lemonsharkpress.com. She talked about losing her dead father's glasses in the Berkeley Hills fire, glasses she would use to stare out at the world as if using his eyes. There were students from La Jolla High in the crowd and an entourage of Maxine's friends. I told Maxine I always had wanted to be a poet/writer after taking her class in '79 and that my father had always wished I'd never taken her class because he wanted me to be a lawyer. I'VE SAVED THE WORLD FROM ANOTHER LAWYER! Maxine said and boy did that crowd get a giggle.

Posted by Kirby at November 7, 2003 04:52 PM
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I'm so much ipressed by the remarkable works of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is hard to learn some of the concepts. For my Doctoral research convenience can I opt for any articles or anyting about her works? If I can avail I could do better in my study Posted by: Basavana Gowda on September 12, 2004 12:25 AM
I'm so much ipressed by the remarkable works of Maxine Hong Kingston. It is hard to learn some of the concepts. For my Doctoral research convenience can I opt for any articles or anyting about her works? If I can avail I could do better in my study. Thank you. Posted by: Basavana Gowda on September 12, 2004 12:25 AM
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