Ronald Phillip Tanaka
Ronald Phillip Tanaka (1944–2007) was a Japanese-American poet and editor.[1]
Life
He was a Sansei (a third-generation Japanese-American), born in the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona in 1944 behind barbed wire.[2]
He attended
California State University Sacramento.[3]
He was the single parent of two girls, Shinobu and Yoi.
Awards
- 1982 American Book Awardfor The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
- California Arts Council
- Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
- Foundation of California State University, Sacramento
Works
- The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry. Authors Choice Press. December 15, 2000. ISBN 978-0-595-15376-3.
- Shidó, The Way of Poetry. Authors Choice Press. April 6, 2001. ISBN 978-0-595-18243-5.
- Scenes from a Country Tea Room: New Japanese-American Poetry. iUniverse. 2006. ISBN 978-0-595-41720-9.
- Systems Models for Literary Macro-theory (1976)
- "On the Metaphysical Foundations of a Sansei Poetics", Journal of Ethnic Studies
Anthologies
- Joseph Bruchac, ed. (1983). Breaking silence: an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets. Greenfield Review Press. ISBN 978-0-912678-59-7.
- Walter K. Lew, ed. (1995). Premonitions: the Kaya anthology of new Asian North American poetry. Kaya Productions.
References
- ^ "Poets On Deck". www.sacmetroarts.org. Archived from the original on 2009-01-19.
- ^ "Sacramento State: Ronald Tanaka". Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ^ "Prof. Tanaka".
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