The Legend | Critical Overview
The River of Heaven was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and won the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Indeed, the poems were well received by the critical establishment and established Hongo as an important voice in Asian American poetry. Robert Schultz, writing in the Hudson Review, notes that Hongo's poems show "care to those excluded from whatever the American Dream has become in the 1980s."
Hongo's rich and versatile style has been especially noted by critics. Schultz comments that his "rich vocabulary and undulant syntax hold...
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