{"product_id":"common-grace-isbn-9780807015889","title":"Common Grace","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, \u003ci\u003eCommon Grace\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1, “Soul Sauce,” describes the poet’s life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2, ‘Ubasute,” is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein “a grown son lifts \/ his aged mother on his back, \/ delivers her to a mountain, \/ leaves her to die.” This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parents’ decline and death, reaching back to his father’s time in the American internment camps of WWII and his mother’s memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the 2 outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3, “Gutter Trees,” gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives they’ve built together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimura’s poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet.\u003cb\u003eI. Soul Sauce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamily Anthem\u003cbr\u003eChopsticks\u003cbr\u003eCal Tjader\u003cbr\u003etitling a poem\u003cbr\u003eEn Plein Air at Silver Sands State Park\u003cbr\u003eWinter Psalm\u003cbr\u003eRoseland Elementary, 1969\u003cbr\u003eSunflowers\u003cbr\u003eElegy for Mrs. Mullane\u003cbr\u003eIn the Studio\u003cbr\u003eNorth on Route 101\u003cbr\u003edaily news\u003cbr\u003eLa Sidrería\u003cbr\u003eTaxi de Toledo\u003cbr\u003eDuende\u003cbr\u003eMisfortuned\u003cbr\u003eTurning Forty-Nine\u003cbr\u003eFishboned\u003cbr\u003eCross My Heart, Hope to Die\u003cbr\u003eAutumnal Equinox\u003cbr\u003edying\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Ubasute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moon of Ubasute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurial\u003cbr\u003eHand Tilling\u003cbr\u003eWatching Grass Grow\u003cbr\u003eRide Home\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eMiss Anita\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasting\u003cbr\u003eRitual\u003cbr\u003eScreaming Crows\u003cbr\u003eThe Hardest Part\u003cbr\u003eMoving On\u003cbr\u003eLeaving\u003cbr\u003eArtificial Flavors\u003cbr\u003eSolidarity\u003cbr\u003ePost-War Occupation\u003cbr\u003eWhen You’re the Son\u003cbr\u003eWhat’s Kept Alive\u003cbr\u003eMom Deciding\u003cbr\u003eHama\u003cbr\u003eDelayed\u003cbr\u003eMemorial\u003cbr\u003eTokyo Army Hospital, 1957\u003cbr\u003eAfternoon Infusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Gutter Trees\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNest\u003cbr\u003eFive Minutes on High\u003cbr\u003eTripe Soup\u003cbr\u003eTaste Test\u003cbr\u003eOn United Flight 2309\u003cbr\u003emarking territory\u003cbr\u003eRiff\u003cbr\u003eMigration\u003cbr\u003eStaircase\u003cbr\u003eEnd of October\u003cbr\u003eThe Fern\u003cbr\u003eOwl\u003cbr\u003eSeasons\u003cbr\u003eCommon Grace\u003cbr\u003eAway in Boston, Riding the Green Line\u003cbr\u003eThe Art of Shoveling Snow\u003cbr\u003eNew Year’s Day\u003cbr\u003eForaging, July 2020\u003cbr\u003eIf this were the day\u003cbr\u003ehumility\u003cbr\u003eGutter Trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e“Wry, tender, musical and unsentimental. . . . In these poems, the visible world radiates meaning, memory becomes palpable, and loss is acknowledged.”\u003cbr\u003e—Robert Pinsky, 3-time United States Poet Laureate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCommon Grace\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncommon book, elegant, at times tough-minded, also moving.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ha Jin, National Book Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eWaiting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pays fluent loving attention to life and art—and their rewards glow!”\u003cbr\u003e—Gail Mazur, author of \u003ci\u003eLand’s End: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here is a poet of clear-eyed originality, big-hearted and wise—and a book to read again and again.”\u003cbr\u003e —Matthew Thorburn, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grace of Distance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Announces Caycedo-Kimura as an important new voice.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jennifer Franklin, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Small Gift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Caycedo-Kimura\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and visual artist. His chapbook, \u003ci\u003eUbasute\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by Jennifer Franklin, Peggy Ellsberg, and Margo Taft Stever as the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition winner. His honors include a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eupstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDMQ Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoet Lore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Heron Barks\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Caycedo-Kimura earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University and is also the author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eText, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life\u003c\/i\u003e (TarcherPerigee, 2017).","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300482109669,"sku":"NP9780807015889","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807015889.jpg?v=1767723972","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/common-grace-isbn-9780807015889","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}