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Book Title
Grave on the Wall
Publication Name
The Grave on the Wall
Title
The Grave on the Wall
EAN
9780872867901
ISBN
9780872867901
Publisher
City Lights
Format
Trade Paperback
Release Year
2019
Release Date
12/09/2019
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Length
8 in
Author
Brandon Shimoda
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Topic
Military / World War II, Emigration & Immigration, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Number of Pages
222 Pages

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Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award Best of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy Magazine A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle. Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life--child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen--mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the twentieth century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting. Praise for The Grave on the Wall: "Shimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories. ... It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midori's life come full circle ... In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb."--Booklist, starred review "In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making."--Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory "Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate."--Myriam Gurba, author of Mean "Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief--its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence--a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson."--Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems "It is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarkable exploration of how citizenship is forged by the brutal US imperial forces--through slave labor, forced detention, indiscriminate bombing, historical amnesia and wall. If someone asked me, Where are you from? I would answer, From The Grave on the Wall."--Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War "Shimoda intercedes into the absences, gaps and interstices of the present and delves the presence of mystery. This mystery is part of each of us. Shimoda outlines that mystery in silence and silhouette, in objects left behind at site-specific travels to Japan and in the disparate facts of his grandpa's FBI file. Gratitude to Brandon Shimoda for taking on the mystery which only literature accepts as the basic challenge."--Sesshu Foster, author of City of the Future "Shimoda is a mystic writer ... He puts what breaches itself (always) onto the page, so that the act of writing becomes akin to paper-making: an attention to fibers, coagulation, texture and the water-fire mixtures that signal irreversible alteration or change. ... he has written a book that touches the bottom of my own soul."--Bhanu Kapil, author of Ban en Banlieue "The Grave on the Wall is a passage of aching nostalgia and relentless assembly out of which something more important than objective truth is conjured--a ritual frisson, a veracity of spirit. I am grateful to have traveled along."--Trisha Low, The Believer "It's not just a document from which Brandon Shimoda untangles the dead, but it's a portal through which the ghosts can show themselves to him. To exchange that kind of attention between the living and the dead is love."--Zachary Schomburg, Willamette Week

Product Identifiers

Publisher
City Lights
ISBN-10
0872867900
ISBN-13
9780872867901
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26044146444

Product Key Features

Book Title
Grave on the Wall
Author
Brandon Shimoda
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Emigration & Immigration, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
222 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
E184.J3s47 2019
Reviews
Praise for The Grave on the Wall: "Here we learn that to attempt to recuperate an erased past is an obsessive task, following faint threads into places of memorial, tragic time, aging bodies--the fissures, gaps, and scars of which can never be fulfilled. In the void between, ghosts emerge and disappear as dreams. A photograph on a wall in an obscure museum in an old Montana fort of layered imprisonments becomes our ghost-guide, its playful enigmatic gaze the journey's beginning. In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making."--Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory "In The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda has conceived a moving monument to his grandfather Midori made not of stone but of fractured memories and dreams, fairy tales and family photographs, pilgrimages to alien enemy internment camps, burial grounds, deserts, and the Inland Sea, all bound together by lambent strands of ancestral and immigrant histories. Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief--its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence--a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson. To read this astounding grave on the wall, to peel back the wall's layers of meaning, reveals less a finished portrait of 'the man made of ash' than a rippling representation of the related forces at play that shape the grandfather's absence."--Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems Praise for Brandon Shimoda: "The poet is on a personal journey, but he knows his life is not the only life. He brings us into his intimacies, but there is no staged candor-all is ghosted with what is perishable and what we cannot understand. This book's slow pace enables the reader to walk with it. Its pleasures are grace, purity, sorrow, and unexpected happiness. It wears the language like a mist and is constantly surprised by its sudden clearing into silence. And so, Evening Oracle remembers poetry as a relation between two strangers, carved in time only with silence's permission."--Poetry Society of America "Grandeur and nakedness, visionary ambition and discomfiting honesty collide and combine in the long lines and big scenes of this latest book from the prolific and peripatetic Shimoda"--Publishers Weekly "Shimoda's use of autobiography proves at once innovative and expansive. In short, O Bon is a plaintive, beautifully written collection. Shimoda offers readers a graceful synthesis of form and content, of autobiography and history, and of the personal and the divine"--Boston Review "Shimoda's poems manage a clarity that Sappho would employ in 2013, an empirical exactness, and potency."--BOMB "Brandon Shimoda's poetry makes the most of a strange tension. On the one hand, it takes on an air of objectivity thanks to its evidently being highly constructed/collaged, with a 'research' aspect behind it; on the other, it relentlessly brings to the fore an expressionistic, gestural quality of language that seems to register pure emotion, if only through the deformation of language."--Hyperallergic, Praise for Brandon Shimoda: "The poet is on a personal journey, but he knows his life is not the only life. He brings us into his intimacies, but there is no staged candor-all is ghosted with what is perishable and what we cannot understand. This book's slow pace enables the reader to walk with it. Its pleasures are grace, purity, sorrow, and unexpected happiness. It wears the language like a mist and is constantly surprised by its sudden clearing into silence. And so, Evening Oracle remembers poetry as a relation between two strangers, carved in time only with silence's permission."--Poetry Society of America "Grandeur and nakedness, visionary ambition and discomfiting honesty collide and combine in the long lines and big scenes of this latest book from the prolific and peripatetic Shimoda"--Publishers Weekly "Shimoda's use of autobiography proves at once innovative and expansive. In short, O Bon is a plaintive, beautifully written collection. Shimoda offers readers a graceful synthesis of form and content, of autobiography and history, and of the personal and the divine"--Boston Review "Shimoda's poems manage a clarity that Sappho would employ in 2013, an empirical exactness, and potency."--BOMB "Brandon Shimoda's poetry makes the most of a strange tension. On the one hand, it takes on an air of objectivity thanks to its evidently being highly constructed/collaged, with a 'research' aspect behind it; on the other, it relentlessly brings to the fore an expressionistic, gestural quality of language that seems to register pure emotion, if only through the deformation of language."--Hyperallergic, Praise for The Grave on the Wall: "Here we learn that to attempt to recuperate an erased past is an obsessive task, following faint threads into places of memorial, tragic time, aging bodies--the fissures, gaps, and scars of which can never be fulfilled. In the void between, ghosts emerge and disappear as dreams. A photograph on a wall in an obscure museum in an old Montana fort of layered imprisonments becomes our ghost-guide, its playful enigmatic gaze the journey's beginning. In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making."--Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory "In The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda has conceived a moving monument to his grandfather Midori made not of stone but of fractured memories and dreams, fairy tales and family photographs, pilgrimages to alien enemy internment camps, burial grounds, deserts, and the Inland Sea, all bound together by lambent strands of ancestral and immigrant histories. Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief--its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence--a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson. To read this astounding grave on the wall, to peel back the wall's layers of meaning, reveals less a finished portrait of 'the man made of ash' than a rippling representation of the related forces at play that shape the grandfather's absence."--Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems "Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate."--Myriam Gurba, author of Mean Praise for Brandon Shimoda: "The poet is on a personal journey, but he knows his life is not the only life. He brings us into his intimacies, but there is no staged candor-all is ghosted with what is perishable and what we cannot understand. This book's slow pace enables the reader to walk with it. Its pleasures are grace, purity, sorrow, and unexpected happiness. It wears the language like a mist and is constantly surprised by its sudden clearing into silence. And so, Evening Oracle remembers poetry as a relation between two strangers, carved in time only with silence's permission."--Poetry Society of America "Grandeur and nakedness, visionary ambition and discomfiting honesty collide and combine in the long lines and big scenes of this latest book from the prolific and peripatetic Shimoda"--Publishers Weekly "Shimoda's use of autobiography proves at once innovative and expansive. In short, O Bon is a plaintive, beautifully written collection. Shimoda offers readers a graceful synthesis of form and content, of autobiography and history, and of the personal and the divine"--Boston Review "Shimoda's poems manage a clarity that Sappho would employ in 2013, an empirical exactness, and potency."--BOMB "Brandon Shimoda's poetry makes the most of a strange tension. On the one hand, it takes on an air of objectivity thanks to its evidently being highly constructed/collaged, with a 'research' aspect behind it; on the other, it relentlessly brings to the fore an expressionistic, gestural quality of language that seems to register pure emotion, if only through the deformation of language."--Hyperallergic
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-015708

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