{"product_id":"shima-poems-isbn-9780771010927","title":"shima: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize • Shortlisted for the 2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award • Longlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community. Come to haunt yamagushiku’s practice of ancestor veneration are photographs and a narrative that spans his own life and a mythic parallel filled with a voice as spare as it is present, yearning as it is precise. The poet says, \u003ci\u003eI am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e anchors this interrogation of the relationship between father and son in the fragile connective tissue of memory where the poet’s homeland is an impossible destination.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303367659749,"sku":"NP9780771010927","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771010927.jpg?v=1767736541","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/shima-poems-isbn-9780771010927","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}