{"product_id":"the-afterlife-is-letting-go-paperback","title":"The Afterlife Is Letting Go - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrandon Shimoda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Afterlife Is Letting Go\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Grave on the Wall.\u003c\/em\u003e\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Seidel, \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/em\u003e \"Big Indie Books of Fall 2024\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Both personal and choral, \u003cem\u003eThe Afterlife is Letting Go\u003c\/em\u003e is deeply felt, precise, and as generous in its insights as it is unsparing in its critiques of how 'exclusion zones' proliferate and reach across time and space. A stirring, trenchant, and necessary work.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Christina Sharpe, author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of reflective, multi-layered, sometimes multi-voiced essays, poet Brandon Shimoda explores the \"afterlife\" of the U.S. government's forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during WWII, excavating the ways these events continue to resonate today. What emerges is a panoramic, yet intimate portrait of intergenerational trauma and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed by personal\/familial history, years of research and travel, including visits to museums, memorials and the ruins of incarceration sites, these essays take us on both a physical and a metaphysical journey. What becomes increasingly clear are the infinite connections between the treatment of Japanese Americans and other forms of oppression, criminalization, dispossession, and state violence enacted by the United States, past, present, and ongoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrandon Shimoda\u003c\/b\u003e is a 2020 Whiting Fellow, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eHydra Medusa\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2023), \u003ci\u003eThe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eEvening Oracle\u003c\/i\u003e (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTo look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2014) and an anthology of poetry on WWII Nikkei incarceration (forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025). He currently lives in Colorado Springs and teaches at Colorado College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987450233133,"sku":"9780872869295","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/yOS7DBSOeG9780872869295.webp?v=1776178776","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-afterlife-is-letting-go-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}