Back working in the Emory Lee papers today, looking at issues of the Asian American Review, a mid-1970s publication from Asian American Studies at Berkeley. The journal's a mix of academic essays, interviews, journalism, short stories, and poems. A sample, from Luis Syquia's "Bayanihan Kearney Street":



And the old men die slow

on Kearney street/Manilatown

Eating their kalding,dinuguan,patis

adobo,isda and kanin

Open to the sun’s warm shrine

Old fighters,wise elders of the

tribe PILIPINO

still making their daily rounds

through vanishing Manilatown

in the rain

The old men die slow

on Kearney Street

Ancient warriors

still tapping their feet

to the primal feet

of a distant drum