Legends from Camp - Softcover

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566890047 ISBN 13: 9781566890045

Publisher: Coffee House Press, 1992

Synopsis

Winner, 1994 American Book Award. Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry finalist. "Recommended for classroom and library use, this book will add a fresh dimension to a growing body of literature that remembers, humanizes, and shares the Japanese-American internment experience for new generations."--Choice

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Review:

Akatonbo Song
Appreciating Oregon
At The Stronghold
Billie Holiday
Bud Powell
Charlie Parker
Concentration Constellation
A Couple Of Geese Over Phoenix
The Discovery Of Tradition
Everything
Finding The Center
Fresno
From Left To Right
Headwaters
In So Doing
In The Stillness
In/vocation
Instructions To All Persons
Janet
Jazz
John Coltrane
The Journey South
Juxtapositions
Legends From Camp
Lester Young
Listening Images
Listening To Hmong Radio
Loading Feed In The Garage Parking Lot
Looking Back At Camp
Louis Armstrong
Memory
My Father And Myself Facing The Sun
A Night In The Valley
On Being Asian American
Poem For Television
Poems From Amache Camp
Poems In Stone
Rayford's Song
Re/collections
Red Earth, Blue Sky, Petrified
Seven Words Of Poetry
The Shovel People
Something Grand
Sweaty
Thelonious Monk In The Redwoods
The Theme
Things As They Are
To Get To Fresno
Turning It Over
Two Variations On A Theme By Thelonious Monk: 1. Blue Monk
Two Variations On A Theme By Thelonious Monk: 2. Blue Monk
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Publishers Weekly:

The preface to this volume presents an apologia of sorts: " . . . don't let the word poetry get in your way . . . this book is full of songs, paintings, photographs, prayers, and stories--that just happen to look like poetry." Inada, who co-edited The Big Aiiieeeee! , is correct in pointing this out; the work is what one might call populist writing, which has become fashionable along with the multicultural movement with which he associates himself as an "Ethnic Minority Third World Asian American Poet." His long opening section is a meditation on the Japanese internment camps during World War II. Unfortunately, the writing is not precise enough to convey a concrete sense of that experience. Generally these pieces are unsophisticated in tone, technique and conceptual structure, although at times the author's sunny disposition comes through. "Poem for Television" offers some characteristic writing: "Welcome to my poem. / Welcome to my home. / This is my song, my story,/ this is my tell-a-vision / to you . . . " Derivative of Whitman, but neither inventive nor sonorous, the writing is often intended for "community performance" in which music and dancing might bolster it.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1566890047
• ISBN 13: 9781566890045
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112