Janine's first collection of poetry,
Pier, (Alice James Books, 2011) won the first annual
Kundiman Poetry Prize. The poet Mark Levine had this to say about
Pier, “The poems in
Pier refuse to privilege poetic craft over intensity of feeling, landscape over interiority, the mundane over the fabular, stoicism over grief. Instead, they have it all—or rather, they emerge from the spaces between contending states: ‘It came out in a child’s hand and I was / not a child.’ Oshiro’s is a new voice of antique resonances, born of an anxious apprenticeship to beauty and to pain.”
