Camp Notes and Other Writings

Mitsuye 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. Yamada'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. Yamada'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.

• | Author: Mitsuye Yamada
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: November 01, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 110 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 081352606X
• | ISBN-13: 9780813526065