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Product Details
Author:
sho yamagushiku
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
McClelland & Stewart (March 26, 2024)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780771010927
ISBN-10:
0771010923
Weight:
4.8oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5" x 0.29"
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RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T120356_156890270-20260705.xml
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$18.50
Country of Origin:
Canada
Case Pack:
24
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$14.25
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
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Yes
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
McClelland & Stewart
Overview
A vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.
The village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.
shima 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, I am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say.
Speaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, shima 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.
The village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.
shima 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, I am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say.
Speaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, shima 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.
