"... there has been an equally strong movement that at first glance appears to run counter to globalization: an increased awareness of poetry's local and regional particularities, including its residence in specific languages, dialects, and classes of language. Even as the magazine Tinfish promotes a sense of a Pacific region (while also promoting intriguing conversations across experimental-writing communities), Tinfish Press most definitely increases a reader's sense of the highly specific, highly localized terms of composition, particularly by calling attention to the cultural politics of writing in pidgin. Recent Tinfish Press publications such as Living Pidgin: Contemplations of Pidgin Culture (by Lee A. Tonouchi, ”da pidgin guerrilla," 2002) and Sista Tongue (by Lisa Linn Kanae, 2001) merit serious attention as examples of locally based writings that deliberately resist any tendency toward a globalized homogeneous writing culture."
Hank Lazer, Boston Review
