Dear Amy Wang, thanks for this bookworm newsletter. (I'm glad we didn't lose your book musings when you left the Oregonian.) And thanks for the recommendation of Elaine Cockrell's book. I've read all the other excellent volumes you recommended about this shameful episode in U.S. history, and now I'm going to add Cockrell's book to my "gotta read" list.
I'd like to add a couple more suggestions about this important topic, both from our state's own one-time Poet Laureate Lawson Fusao Inada, who was incarcerated as a child with his family in camps in Arkansas and Colorado. In 1992, Inada's poetry collection Legends from Camp was published. It won an American Book Award and has a bunch of poems about his experiences as a kid in those camps. And in 2000, Inada edited a powerful anthology, Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, which spotlights in multiple voices and forms all aspects of that historic injustice. I highly recommend both.
Thanks, Tim. Yes, Legends from Camp is a powerful collection, and I should have included it. I haven't read Only What We Could Carry but will put it on my list.
Dear Amy Wang, thanks for this bookworm newsletter. (I'm glad we didn't lose your book musings when you left the Oregonian.) And thanks for the recommendation of Elaine Cockrell's book. I've read all the other excellent volumes you recommended about this shameful episode in U.S. history, and now I'm going to add Cockrell's book to my "gotta read" list.
I'd like to add a couple more suggestions about this important topic, both from our state's own one-time Poet Laureate Lawson Fusao Inada, who was incarcerated as a child with his family in camps in Arkansas and Colorado. In 1992, Inada's poetry collection Legends from Camp was published. It won an American Book Award and has a bunch of poems about his experiences as a kid in those camps. And in 2000, Inada edited a powerful anthology, Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, which spotlights in multiple voices and forms all aspects of that historic injustice. I highly recommend both.
Thanks, Tim. Yes, Legends from Camp is a powerful collection, and I should have included it. I haven't read Only What We Could Carry but will put it on my list.