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Pidgin Eye Paperback – April 13, 2019

by Joe Balaz (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 10
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Pidgin Eye features thirty-five years of poetry by acclaimed author Joe Balaz. Writing in Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole English), he honors the beauty, strength, and complexity of Hawaiʻi and the voices of its peoples. Balaz’s philosophical lyricism tightly weaves history and humor, aloha ʻāina and protest, the spiritual and the everyday. Together, these poems envision a world in which—like Pidgin—“everyting deserves to fly.”Joe Balaz, born and raised in Wahiawa on the island of Oʻahu, is of Hawaiian, Slovakian, and Irish ancestry. He is the author of multiple books of poetry in Standard English and Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole English), as well as the editor of Hoʻomānoa: An Anthology of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature. His writing, visual poetry, and artwork have been published in national and international journals and anthologies. Throughout his career, he has passionately advocated for Hawaiian and Pidgin literature.
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  1. Print length
    284 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 13, 2019
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.71 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1091108706
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1091108707
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 13, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1091108706
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1091108707
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.71 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 10

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Rob Sean Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Pacific-creolized poetics of English not so much broken as broken into by the Pidgin Eye/I...
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2019
With subterranean wit, political imagination, and active joy, the poetry of Joe Balaz presents, in its own singular way of multi-voiced plenitude, a deft and uncanny reclaiming of Hawaii as people and place in the local oceanic Pacific. In a fabulously pedagogical playhouse of voices , Balaz tracks and mimes an 'anti-paradise' of contemporaryHawai'i Nei filled with pit bulls, skateboarders, Bows fans, drag queens, bullies, crazed postal workers, gamblers, canoe girls, Rastafarians,gangsters, gods and goddesses speaking the language of the Pearl Ridgemall, hula profiteers, losers, cheaters, lost souls, sacred seekers.Joseph Puna Balaz writes, over all these disruptive years and postmodern changes, to create a whole living-playhouse of multiplelanguages and colorful styles, using the expressive humor of the mixed,impure, impious, submerged, and new. As with the "Calibanization" of English and nation-language activated by the Caribbean poet Edward KamauBrathwaite, for Joe Balaz the pidgin of Hawaiian Creole English (preserving strong ties to Hawaiian language and values more so than to Standard or "haolified" English) becomes subversive poetic means (as in the all-too-raunchy love poem, "Lapa Poi Boy,") by which "English is not so much broken, as broken into" by the always-moving and subverive Pidgin Eye/I/ Ay...
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Dazhi Yang
5.0 out of 5 stars Pidgin can fly
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021
Dis guy is da best! I nevah taught I'd laugh so hard. I read um to my kids and guess wat, dey even liked it moa! Tanks braddah joe for one hellava book.
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