1 hrs 0 mins | POETRYPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 Intro |
0 mins 13 secs |
| 2. | Dedication |
0 mins 25 secs |
| 3. | Part I - Japanese-American Dictionary |
0 mins 09 secs |
| 4. | Oriental Flavors |
1 mins 07 secs |
| 5. | My Grandmother Peeling Onions |
0 mins 59 secs |
| 6. | Midnight, the Spotted Hound Wanders |
0 mins 43 secs |
| 7. | First Chinese Brother, Swallowing the Sea |
2 mins 10 secs |
| 8. | Kokusai Theatre, Seattle, 1965 |
1 mins 33 secs |
| 9. | What My Blind Grandfather Showed Me |
0 mins 46 secs |
| 10. | Japanese-American Dictionary |
0 mins 59 secs |
| 11. | Color Snapshot, Oregon Coast, 1971 |
0 mins 38 secs |
| 12. | Submerged Clothesline, Salton Sea, 1963 |
0 mins 48 secs |
| 13. | Nuclear Cattle |
1 mins 21 secs |
| 14. | Amen |
1 mins 29 secs |
| 15. | Soft |
1 mins 36 secs |
| 16. | One of The World's Oldest Twins Dies at Age 107 in Japan |
1 mins 17 secs |
| 17. | Seven Haiku from My Grandmother in the Kawabe House |
1 mins 10 secs |
| 18. | Asleep |
0 mins 40 secs |
| 19. | To Erlinda, Fifty Years Later |
1 mins 45 secs |
| 20. | Part II - The War |
0 mins 07 secs |
| 21. | August 9th |
1 mins 09 secs |
| 22. | Day Of Departure, May 9, 1942 |
1 mins 04 secs |
| 23. | A Barrack's WIndow, Outside |
0 mins 48 secs |
| 24. | A Barrack's WIndow, Inside |
1 mins 01 secs |
| 25. | A Matter of Loyalty, Question #27 |
1 mins 16 secs |
| 26. | A Matter of Loyalty, Question #28, A Nisei's Response |
2 mins 03 secs |
| 27. | Letter to My Father from His Friend Overseas, August, 1944 |
2 mins 41 secs |
| 28. | Smithsonian |
1 mins 28 secs |
| 29. | Part III - No Wrong Turnings |
0 mins 08 secs |
| 30. | Mangoes |
1 mins 48 secs |
| 31. | Expectations |
0 mins 58 secs |
| 32. | At The Richard Hugo House |
0 mins 55 secs |
| 33. | No Wrong Turnings |
0 mins 56 secs |
| 34. | Steelhead Fishing |
1 mins 02 secs |
| 35. | Late Night Phone Call |
1 mins 11 secs |
| 36. | The Feral Cats |
1 mins 18 secs |
| 37. | What Eve Never Said to Cain |
1 mins 13 secs |
| 38. | Gifts |
0 mins 51 secs |
| 39. | To My Grand-Nephew, James of the Future |
1 mins 16 secs |
| 40. | The Right Kind of Song |
1 mins 19 secs |
| 41. | Last Day |
0 mins 55 secs |
| 42. | In Flower |
0 mins 24 secs |
| 43. | Part IV - Those Left to Tell |
0 mins 07 secs |
| 44. | In Hawai'i, We Do This |
1 mins 14 secs |
| 45. | The Golfer's Daughter |
1 mins 03 secs |
| 46. | On Hearing of a Friend's Onset of Alzheimer's |
0 mins 31 secs |
| 47. | Hard Shell Clamming |
1 mins 12 secs |
| 48. | Sciurus Griseus |
1 mins 07 secs |
| 49. | Argument on The Beach, Vashon Island |
0 mins 40 secs |
| 50. | Theodor Jacobsen Observatory |
0 mins 47 secs |
| 51. | The Bus Driver's Wife |
0 mins 45 secs |
| 52. | The Guest Bedroom |
0 mins 47 secs |
| 53. | At The Foul Weather Bluff Preserve |
1 mins 02 secs |
| 54. | Badminton |
1 mins 23 secs |
| 55. | Those Left to Tell, For A.C. |
0 mins 53 secs |
| 56. | 56 Outro |
0 mins 30 secs |
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