From the Spider Bone Diaries

Richard Hamasaki has published two poetry chapbooks, 7 Poems/8 Photographs (with brother Mark Hamasaki) and virtual fleality, and has written articles, reviews, and essays as well as poetry.

The finest poetry is a gift of exuberant experience rendered as subtle, and soaring, enlightenments.... Richard Hamasaki's recent collection of poems and songs is just such a gift. - Honolulu Advertiser; ""Hamasaki's work gathers into itself traditions, ancient and contemporary... and returns them in passionate new forms."" - Honolulu Weekly