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The Trail Of The Asian Spirit Fox (H339)

H – Literature

We follow the trail of Asian spirit foxes over hills of culture and history, through and beyond and into our contemporary world. At the center of the class is Sally Wen Mao’s cunningly written contemporary short story collection, Ninetails, which presents a soulful exploration of Asian identity and history from a perspective of a Chinese born American woman poet.

Required text: Ninetails, Sally Wen Mao, ISBN#9780143137894.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Russ Endo

ENDO, RUSS — Trained in poetry with Etheridge Knight in the Free People’s Poetry Workshop of Philadelphia (Etheridge called him Little Brother). His first poem, Susumu, My Name, became the basis of a jazz composition by Sumi Tonooka that appeared on PBS. (H339)

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