Brandon Shimoda

The Grave on the Wall

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 222 Seiten
ISBN 0872867900
EAN 9780872867901
Veröffentlicht Juli 2019
Verlag/Hersteller City Lights Books
18,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

In this memoir and book of mourning, a grandson attempts to reconcile his ownuncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.

Portrait

Brandon Shimoda is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Desert (Song Cave, 2018) and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2016), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His memoir and book of mourning, The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019) received the 2020 PEN Open Book Award. His writings on Japanese-American incarceration have appeared in/on The Asian American Literary Review, Densho, Hyperallergic, The Margins, and The New Inquiry, and he has given talks on the subject at the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Fairhaven College, and the International Center of Photography. He is also the co-editor, with Thom Donovan, of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014). Born in the San Fernando Valley, California, he lives, for now, in Tucson, AZ.