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Roripaugh, Lee Ann.

Beyond Heart Mountain / Lee Ann Roripaugh.

New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

x, 70 pages ; 22 cm.

Lee Ann Roripaugh has been hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of the brightest talents" writing poetry today. In this collection, she gives voice to the Japanese immigrants of the American West. In an unforgiving land of dirt and sagebrush, mothers labor to teach their children of the ocean, old men are displaced by geography and language, and the ghosts of Hiroshima clamor for peace. Lee Ann Roripaugh's exquisitely crafted poems rise from the pages of Beyond Heart Mountain burdened with memory and pain, yet converting these to powerful art -- art that is like "the pattern of kimono found burned into a woman after Hiroshima ... almost too beautiful, too horrible ...to bear."

The national poetry series

National poetry series.

Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) -- Poetry.

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Poetry.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Wyoming -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Pearls -- Ningyo -- Chrysanthemums -- Mitten Springs: I. Benny's Place -- Mitten Springs: II. Antelope Hunting -- Mitten Springs: III. Gutting -- Coyote -- Peach Girl -- Oyurushi -- Squid -- A Dance of Wooden Shoes -- Hiroshima Maiden -- Heart Mountain, 1943: I. Kimiko Ozawa -- Heart Mountain, 1943: II. Jimmy Yamamoto -- Heart Mountain, 1943: III. Masa Nakahara -- Heart Mountain, 1943: IV. Chester Korematsu -- Heart Mountain, 1943: V. Lily Iwasaki -- Heart Mountain, 1943: VI. Sam Toyama -- Heart Mountain, 1943: VII. Nina Inoue -- Heart Mountain, 1943: VIII. Yoshio Miyake -- Heart Mountain, 1943: IX. Chikako Okano -- Heart Mountain, 1943: X. Minoru Saito -- Songs for an Approaching Rainy Season -- The Woman Who Loves Insects -- Star Festival: I. Sumida River -- Star Festival: II. Orihime's Song -- Star Festival: III. A Thousand Cranes -- Peony Lantern -- Utoyasukata -- Peony Lover -- Ode to Sushi -- Fish Wife -- Kakitsubata.

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