{"product_id":"shima-poems","title":"Shima: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eI am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\r","brand":"Sho Yamagushiku","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44460036751596,"sku":"9780771010927","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780771010927.jpg?v=1709490447","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/shima-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}