Grid Books/Off the Grid Press, paperback
Publication Date: July 6, 2021
Publisher Marketing: Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize and Winner of the 2022 Washington State Book Award for Poetry
In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.
