Crossing With The Light

By Dwight Okita

The poems from this book have been reprinted in a multitude of textbooks and anthologies, including the Norton Introduction to Literature. This is the last printing for this paperback book published by Tia Chucha Press, Chicago's acclaimed multicultural poetry publisher. The book is not available as an ebook. ."In Response to Executive Order 9066" has appeared in CELEBRATE AMERICA IN POETRY AND ART (Smithsonian) and many textbooks and anthologies. Okita's poetry is widely reprinted every year in textbooks and anthologies. .
The book also looks at the poet's life as a gay man in poems like "When Frank Walks In" and "Where the Boys Were." This last poem was inspired by the AIDS crisis. There is often humor in the poems, sometimes a sense of wonder. Other titles included