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Issue #11 November 1, 2013
Cover image:
Originally the cover for "The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me" (2012) by Maged Zaher, a Cairo native who writes about "the absurd paradoxes of global capitalism and local revolution" after the 2011 revolution in Egypt.
Designed by Allison Hanabusa, the cover "is a representation of the Egyptian flag, which holds much symbolism of the country's political history. The angles introduced in the cover continue throughout the interior of the book and echo Zaher's outsider perspective."
Above:
The cover design for Tinfish #12 (2002) was designed by Jung Kim, who "momentarily forgot that we westerners read from left to right." The issue, therefore, is the only issue of Tinfish that runs from back to front as well as front to back.
Issue 12 has been used as a required text at the both the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Kapiʻolani Community College.
Opposite page:
The cover for "The Gulag Arkipelago" (2012) by Sean Labrador y Manzano, was designed by Eric Butler.
"Manzano’s imagination roams from Longinus to Marcos, baseball to Martial Law, passports to Sin, pineapples to puddles."
Susan Schultz founded Tinfish Press in 1995 as a way to cultivate and spread experimental poetry of the Pacific region. More than simply collecting or cataloging this poetry though, the press and its editor seek to foster dialogue between people, ideas and even different forms of literature. We sat down with Schultz to talk about Tinfish, its contribution to poetry in Hawaiʻi and how that dialogue is created.
The independent press has put out 20 poetry journal issues over 15 years, along with numerous books, chapbooks and collections.
Susan teaches poetry at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and is a diehard Saint Louis Cardinals fan.
Perspective:
“How can I create a conversation between these
two kinds of literature that I’m really immersed in?"