In this episode listen to the conversation between host, Daniel Chacon,  and memorist, Garret Hongo, about his new book The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (Pantheon, 2022).

Hongo's poetry collections are Yellow Light (1982), The River of Heaven (1988), which received the Lamont Poetry Prize and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Coral Road (2011).  In non-fiction, he has published The Mirror Diary (2017) and Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi (1995). His work has been recognized with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.