Ronald Phillip Tanaka
Ronald Phillip Tanaka(1944–2007) was a Japanese-Americanpoetand editor.[1]
Life
[edit]He was aSansei(a third-generation Japanese-American), born in thePoston War Relocation Centerin Arizona in 1944 behind barbed wire.[2]
He attendedPomona College,Claremont and theUniversity of California, Berkeleywhere he took an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Renaissance British Literature, philosophy of language and generative syntax and semantics under the tutelage of Julian C. Boyd. Ronald Tanaka taught English at theCalifornia State University Sacramento.[3]
He was the single parent of two girls, Shinobu and Yoi.
Awards
[edit]- 1982American Book AwardforThe Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
- California Arts Council
- Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
- Foundation of California State University, Sacramento
Works
[edit]- The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry.Authors Choice Press. December 15, 2000.ISBN978-0-595-15376-3.
- Shidó, The Way of Poetry.Authors Choice Press. April 6, 2001.ISBN978-0-595-18243-5.
- Scenes from a Country Tea Room: New Japanese-American Poetry.iUniverse. 2006.ISBN978-0-595-41720-9.
- Systems Models for Literary Macro-theory(1976)
- "On the Metaphysical Foundations of a Sansei Poetics",Journal of Ethnic Studies
Anthologies
[edit]- Joseph Bruchac, ed. (1983).Breaking silence: an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets.Greenfield Review Press.ISBN978-0-912678-59-7.
- Walter K. Lew, ed. (1995).Premonitions: the Kaya anthology of new Asian North American poetry.Kaya Productions.
References
[edit]- ^"Poets On Deck".sacmetroarts.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2009-01-19.
- ^"Sacramento State: Ronald Tanaka".Retrieved2009-11-16.
- ^"Prof. Tanaka".
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Categories:
- 1944 births
- 2007 deaths
- American poets of Asian descent
- Pomona College alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- California State University, Sacramento faculty
- Japanese-American internees
- American writers of Japanese descent
- Writers from Sacramento, California
- 20th-century American poets
- American Book Award winners