Kingston, Maxine Hong

The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
165 editions published between 1975 and 2010 in 12 languages and held by 3,705 libraries worldwide
A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.

China men by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
71 editions published between 1977 and 2000 in 7 languages and held by 2,951 libraries worldwide
A history of the men in the author's family. Describes their pains and joys as they become American.

Tripmaster monkey : his fake book by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
31 editions published between 1989 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,671 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novels Wittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.

The fifth book of peace by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
24 editions published between 2003 and 2010 in English and held by 1,527 libraries worldwide
The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Tana -- California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Tana help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam -- not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing -- the accurate transcription of what is in the heart -- and the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace -- words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war.

I love a broad margin to my life by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
7 editions published in 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 966 libraries worldwide
The author reflects on her life as she turns sixty-five. Told in free verse.

To be the poet by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
10 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 830 libraries worldwide
"To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry. Taking readers along with her, this celebrated writer gathers advice from her gifted contemporaries and from sages, critics, and writers whom she takes as ancestors. She consults her past, her conscience, her time - and puts together a volume at once irreverent and deeply serious, playful and practical, partaking of poetry throughout as it pursues the meaning, the possibility, and the power of the life of the poet." "A manual on inviting poetry, on conjuring the elusive muse, To Be the Poet is also a harvest of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to bursts of eloquence, wonder, and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet."--Jacket.

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 471 libraries worldwide
"In this collection of interviews, Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between fiction and nonfiction, memoir and imagination. As she answers her critics and readers, she both clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created." "She explains how she worked to bridge her parents' Chinese dialect with American slang, how she learned to explore her inheritance and find new relevance in her mother's "talk-stories," and how she developed the complex juxtapositions of myths and memoir that fill her books."--BOOK JACKET.

The stories of Maxine Hong Kingston ( Visual )
13 editions published between 1990 and 2002 in English and held by 400 libraries worldwide
Maxine Hong Kingston, in two conversations with Bill Moyers, talks about her writing, her published works and the interaction of East Asian and American consciousness.

Hawaiʻi one summer by Maxine Hong Kingston ( Book )
8 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 350 libraries worldwide

Veterans of war, veterans of peace ( Book )
3 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 336 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or came home to homelessness. All struggle with trauma-PTSD, substance abuse, and other consequences of war and violence. Through their extraordinary writings, readers witness worlds coming apart and being put back together again through liberating insight, community, and the deep transformation that is possible only by coming to grips with the past.