A Cold Wind from Idaho: Poems

Title

A Cold Wind from Idaho: Poems

Subject

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Poetry. Minidoka Relocation Center -- Poetry.

Description

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...

Creator

Matsuda, Lawrence

Publisher

Black Lawrence Press

Date

2010

Type

PS3613 .A8388 C65

Identifier

2003.500.4307

Collection