{"product_id":"9780771010927","title":"shima","description":"\u003cb\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":"Sho Yamagushiku (CA)","offers":[{"title":"McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-03-26","offer_id":44663112728831,"sku":"9780771010927","price":22.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_219bb743-fb15-43ff-b77f-3811f4d2a940.jpg?v=1704569788","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780771010927","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}