{"product_id":"camp-notes-and-other-writings","title":"Camp Notes and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention of the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo collections by an important Asian American writer --\u003ci\u003e Camp Notes and Other Poeems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDesert Run: Poems and Stories\u003c\/i\u003e -- return to print in one volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak of World War II when her family was removed to a concentration camp in Idaho. \u003ci\u003eCamp Notes and Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e recounts this experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYamada's poetry yields a terse blend of emotions and imagery. Her twist of words creates a twist of vision that make her poetry come alive. The weight of her cultural experience-the pain of being perceived as an outsider all of her life-permeates her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYamada's strength as a poet stems from the fact that she has managed to integrate both individual and collective aspects of her background, giving her poems a double impact. Her strong portrayal of individual and collective life experience stands out as a distinct thread in the fabric of contemporary literature by women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The core poems of \u003ci\u003eCamp Notes\u003c\/i\u003e and the title come from the notes I had taken when I was in camp, and it wasn’t published until thirty years after most of it was written. I was simply describing what was happening to me, and my thoughts. But, in retrospect, the collection takes on a kind of expanded meaning about that period in our history. As invariably happens, because Japanese American internment became such an issue in American history, I suppose I will be forever identified as the author of \u003ci\u003eCamp Notes\u003c\/i\u003e. Of course, I try to show that it’s not the only thing I ever did in my whole life; I did other things besides go to an internment camp during World War II. So, in some ways I keep producing to counteract that one image that gets set in the public mind. At the time that I was writing it, I wasn’t necessarily a political person. Now, when I reread it, even to myself, I think it probably has a greater warning about the dangers of being not aware, not aware of one’s own rights, not aware of helping other people who may be in trouble. I think that it does speak to our present age very acutely.\" -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitsuye Yamada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eYou should not be invisible”: An Interview with Mitsuye Yamada,\u003ci\u003e Contemporary Women's Writing,\u003c\/i\u003e March 2014, Vol. 8 Issue 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the whole interview at: https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cww\/article\/8\/1\/1\/414906\/You-should-not-be-invisible-An-Interview-with\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222163968344,"sku":"9780813526065","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813526065__67655395e442f.jpg?v=1741159953","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/camp-notes-and-other-writings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}