{"product_id":"shima-poems-paperback","title":"Shima: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSho Yamagushiku\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community. Come to haunt yamagushiku's practice of ancestor veneration are photographs and a narrative that spans his own life and a mythic parallel filled with a voice as spare as it is present, yearning as it is precise. The poet says, \u003ci\u003eI am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e anchors this interrogation of the relationship between father and son in the fragile connective tissue of memory where the poet's homeland is an impossible destination.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eshō yamagushiku's work is grounded in a diasporic okinawan consciousness. He writes from the homelands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples (Victoria, BC). His first poetry collection, entitled \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e, reflects ancestors, violence, and tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763849429280,"sku":"9780771010927","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6898dcbd7895f6b8e416f5d807cf7ef2.webp?v=1780240115","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/shima-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}