{"product_id":"camp-notes-and-other-writings-9780813526065","title":"Camp Notes and Other Writings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCamp Notes and Other Writings\u003c\/strong\u003e by Yamada, Mitsuye. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780813526065.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention of the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards\n\nTwo collections by an important Asian American writer -- Camp Notes and Other Poeems and Desert Run: Poems and Stories -- return to print in one volume.\nMitsuye 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. Camp Notes and Other Writings recounts this experience.\nYamadas 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.\nYamadas 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.\n\n\"The core poems of Camp Notes 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 Camp Notes. 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.\" -- Mitsuye Yamada, \"You should not be invisible”: An Interview with Mitsuye Yamada, Contemporary Womens Writing, March 2014, Vol. 8 Issue 1\nRead 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44954532675637,"sku":"ByrdShop_081352606X","price":35.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813526065_a434d00e-58e7-4176-a03a-c12966a1af35.jpg?v=1778697450","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/camp-notes-and-other-writings-9780813526065","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}