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Camp notes and other writings / Mitsuye Yamada.

Author: Mitsuye Yamada
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak of World War II when her family was removed to a concentration camp in Idaho. Camp Notes and Other Writings recounts this experience. Yamada's poetry yields a terse blend of emotions and imagery. Her twist of words creates a twist of vision that make her poetry come alive. The weight of her cultural experience - the pain  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Literary collections
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mitsuye Yamada
ISBN: 081352606X 9780813526065
OCLC Number: 39556674
Notes: Originally published separately: Camp notes and other poems. San Lorenzo, Calif. : Shameless Hussy Press, c1976; and Desert run. Latham, NY : Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, c1988.
Description: 95 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Camp notes and other poems --
Desert run.
Other Titles: Camp notes and other poems

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Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak of World War II when her family was removed to a concentration camp in Idaho. Camp Notes and Other Writings recounts this experience. Yamada's poetry yields a terse blend of emotions and imagery. Her twist of words creates a twist of vision that make her poetry come alive. The weight of her cultural experience - the pain of being perceived as an outsider all of her life - permeates her work. Yamada's strength as a poet stems from the fact that she has managed to integrate both individual and collective aspects of her background, giving her poems a double impact. Her strong portrayal of individual and collective life experience stands out as a distinct thread in the fabric of contemporary literature by women. This writers poetry yields a terse blend of emotions & imagery. Her twist of words creates a twist of vision that make her poetry come alive. The weight of her cultural experience-the pain of being perceived as an outsider all of her life-permeates her work. Her strength as a poet stems from the fact that she has managed to integrate both individual & collective aspects of her background, giving her poems a double impact.

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