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DESCRIPTION:Brandon Shimoda is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, 
 including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award. His 
 latest work is Hydra Medusa. He is an associate professor at Colorado 
 College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, a traveling reading 
 room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and 
 Nagasaki.\n\nHydra Medusa is a book of poetry and prose written while 
 Shimoda was living in the US-Mexico borderlands. There are dreams, ghosts 
 and many layers to his reflections as he links the past to the present, the 
 Central Americans who today cross into the U.S. without permission and are 
 rounded up and imprisoned in multiple facilities, with the many Japanese 
 who were incarcerated in the many prisons in the same desert area during 
 WWII. He writes: "Xenophobia is a handmaiden of citizenship, and an 
 essential qualification of Americanism. Americanism is not a virtue but a 
 malignancy. It elucidates a set of cognitive dissonances and defects which 
 produce an animalistic anger that can only find resolution in the treatment 
 of other people as animals."\n\nPraise for Hydra Medusa\n\nUnlike the hydra 
 in Greek mythology, Hydra Medusa’s wounds refuse cauterization, instead 
 serving as sites of transformative historical encounter. In the aftermath 
 of Japanese incarceration during World War II, a topic that has 
 consistently engaged Shimoda’s thinking and writing, looking into these 
 wounds informs how we see the landscape of the past as it shimmers, 
 mirage-like, in the here and now. --Los Angeles Review of Books\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/28/18864630.php
SUMMARY:BRANDON SHIMODA poetry reading & discussion
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/03/28/18864630.php
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