The Grave on the Wall

- Celebrated poet Brandon Shimoda's first memoir that deals directly with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and its affect on memory and family.

- Shimoda's poetry which routinely blends biographical writing has been praised by Publishers Weekly and Boston Review.

- Shimoda won the William Carlos Williams Award in 2016.

- A needed narrative in today's climate of normalized imprisonment of immigrants/immigrant families.

- An unconventional travel narrative that is for anyone who seeks out literary nonfiction, including memoirs, that are nonlinear/diaristic/meditative/poetic/historical/political, in some cases nonfiction that reads like fiction.

© 2018 City Lights Publishers (E-bog): 9780872867932

Release date

E-bog: 23. juli 2018