The Afterlife Is Letting Go by Shimoda, Brandon

The Afterlife Is Letting Go

Chosen one of Booklist's Top Ten History Books of the Year!Winner of the Colorado Book Award for...
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Author: Brandon Shimoda
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The Afterlife Is Letting Go by Shimoda, Brandon

The Afterlife Is Letting Go

$27.41

The Afterlife Is Letting Go

$27.41
Author: Brandon Shimoda
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Chosen one of Booklist's Top Ten History Books of the Year!

Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction

"The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning The Grave on the Wall."--Matt Seidel, Publishers Weekly's "Big Indie Books"

"Both personal and choral, The Afterlife is Letting Go 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."--Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes

In 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.

Informed 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.



Author: Brandon Shimoda
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 12/10/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780872869295


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/21/2024
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 18
Shelf Awareness 12/28/2024

About the Author
Brandon Shimoda is a 2020 Whiting Fellow, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023), The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the co-editor of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (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.

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