Blues and Greens - A Produce Worker's Journal

Alan Chong Lau's poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle's Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America -- a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and brim over with humor.With the simple profundity of a Zen koan, the poems bear witness to people's humanity. Lau portrays in words and pictures a community in constant flux as it moves to the push and pull of immigration. Blues and Greens has a lot to say about Asian Americans. What emerges is an acutely observed, nuanced critique of where Asian Americans -- native-born, refugee, and migrant -- are today.

Summary

Alan Chong Lau's poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle's Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America - a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and humour.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Chong Lau
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780824822101
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-2210-1
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacif
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama