The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A memoir and book of mourning, a grandsons attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfathers lifelong struggle. Publisher Description Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book AwardBest of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy MagazineA memoir and book of mourning, a grandsons attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfathers lifelong struggle.Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life-child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen-mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the twentieth century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting.Praise for The Grave on the Wall:"Shimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories. ... It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midoris life come full circle ... In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb."-Booklist, starred review"In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making."-Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory"Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfos Pedro Paramo, Brandon Shimodas The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate."-Myriam Gurba, author of Mean"Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief-its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence-a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson."-Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems"It is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarkable exploration of how citizenship is forged by the brutal US imperial forces-through slave labor, forced detention, indiscriminate bombing, historical amnesia and wall. If someone asked me, Where are you from? I would answer, From The Grave on the Wall."-Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War"Shimoda intercedes into the absences, gaps and interstices of the present and delves the presence of mystery. This mystery is part of each of us. Shimoda outlines that mystery in silence and silhouette, in objects left behind at site-specific travels to Japan and in the disparate facts of his grandpas FBI file. Gratitude to Brandon Shimoda for taking on the mystery which only literature accepts as the basic challenge."-Sesshu Foster, author of City of the Future"Shimoda is a mystic writer ... He puts what breaches itself (always) onto the page, so that the act of writing becomes akin to paper-making: an attention to fibers, coagulation, texture and the water-fire mixtures that signal irreversible alteration or change. ... he has written a book that touches the bottom of my own soul."-Bhanu Kapil, author of Ban en Banlieue"The Grave on the Wall is a passage of aching nostalgia and relentless assembly out of which something more important than objective truth is conjured-a ritual frisson, a veracity of spirit. I am grateful to have traveled along."-Trisha Low, The Believer Author Biography 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. Details ISBN 0872867900 ISBN-13 9780872867901 Title The Grave on the Wall Author Brandon Shimoda Format Paperback Year 2019 Pages 222 Publisher City Lights Books GE_Item_ID:125189847; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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