They never asked : senryū poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center /

They Never Asked is a collection of work produced by Bara Ginsha members in the WCCA camp, based on a journal kept by Masaki Kinoshita. The senryu collected here were written by a group of twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems. Individually, the poems reflect the thoughts and feelings the...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Portland Assembly Center (Portland, Or.)
Other Authors:	Baker-Gard, Shelley (Editor), Freiling, Michael J. (Editor), Takikawa, Satsuki (Editor), Watari, Duane (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Japanese
Language Notes:	Text in English ; poems in original and transliterated Japanese.
Published:	Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Japanese poetry > 20th century > Translations into English. Japanese American poetry > Translations into English. Japanese American poetry > 20th century. Senryu. Senryu > Translations into English. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Poetry.

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Summary:	They Never Asked is a collection of work produced by Bara Ginsha members in the WCCA camp, based on a journal kept by Masaki Kinoshita. The senryu collected here were written by a group of twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems. Individually, the poems reflect the thoughts and feelings the authors experienced while being detained in the center; collectively, they reflect the resilience and resistance of a community denied freedom. Editors Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling and Satsuki Takikawa present translations of the poems alongside the originals, supplemented by historical and literary context and a foreword by Duane Watari, Masaki Kinoshita's grandson.
Physical Description:	xiv, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	0870712357 9780870712357