Poetry
Lit&Lunch: Saving Immigrant Poetry from the Bulldozers
May 11, 2010|12:30pm
111 Minna Gallery, Minna Street, San Francisco, CA, United States111 Minna Gallery, Minna Street, San Francisco, CA, United States
111 Minna Gallery | 111 Minna Street | San Francisco, CA
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In the early 20th century, thousands of Chinese immigrants to the United States were detained on Angel Island. Many of them carved poetry into the wooden walls of the detention center, and the poetry remained until the 1970s when the center was scheduled for demolition. Marlon Hom talks about these unique glimpses into the heart of the immigrant experience and how they were ultimately saved so that future generations of Americans would be able to see, firsthand, this chapter of our past.
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Marlon Hom
Marlon Hom is professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and a noted Chinese scholar. He has translated and edited several books, including Song of Gold Mountain, a collection of Chinatown songs from the early 20th century.