Hamasaki, Richard2018-04-182018-04-181989http://hdl.handle.net/10125/55864This study is primarily an examination of three contemporary Hawaiian poets. The three poets, Dana Naone Hall, Wayne Kaumuali'i Westlake (1947-1984) and Joseph P. Balaz, are of Hawaiian ancestry, and they are among the first ethnic Hawaiian writers to publish a significant body of contemporary poetry written primarily in English.147 leavesen-USHawaiian poetryHawaiian literatureAuthors, HawaiianHawaii, PoetryThesis