Author : Lawrence Y. Matsuda
Publisher : Black Lawrence Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japanese Americans
ISBN : 0982636407
A Cold Wind from Idaho by Lawrence Y. Matsuda Pdf
"Matsuda's poems break for us all the Japanese-American code of silence (gaman) toward the indignities of the nine U.S. government-mandated internment camps of WWII like Minidoka in Idaho where Matsuda was born. He not only educates us in the specifics of the suffering of this time, but also brings us into the transgenerational implications of it, connecting this shameful period to both the war in Iraq and the bombing of Hiroshima, where one of his relatives survived near ground zero ... --Tess Gallagher."--Cover.