{"product_id":"saito-brynn-under-a-fupb","title":"Saito, Brynn: Under a Future Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Hen Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 17, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder a Future Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of poems that gives voice to the intergenerational impact left by WWII Japanese internment camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brynn Saito writes with a rare, inimitable grace in her most personal and politically engaged book to date. The epistolary poems for family and the impact of internment and inheritance are imagined with music and wisdom. I feel more alive after these poems and her reminder, 'Beautiful prayer animal, rise to the occasion of your living.' \u003cem\u003eUnder a Future Sky \u003c\/em\u003eis a masterpiece.\"--Lee Herrick, author of \u003cem\u003eScar and Flower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThe stark beauty and physicality of the Arizona desert, where Saito's paternal grandparents were imprisoned during World War II, are ever-present in her latest book. Using the framework of letters to and from her father and other family members, she honors the \"riverstream of ancestors\" and, in a celebration of ghosts, recovers stones for the living. Saito's fearless entry into her \"gate of memory\" is a radical guide for us all to make meaning from the past.--Amy Uyematsu, author of \u003cem\u003eBasic Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"Through gorgeous epistles to family, friends, and even a dragonfly, Brynn Saito quests through the Western landscape and questions the past. She searches the animal of the body, each cell an intergenerational archive, and finds 'who you've been can no longer carry you. \/ That is the miracle.' Lyrically lush and deeply wise, this book is both an intimate portrait and a summoning, a chance to hunt memory and recover history, still burning, still stone.\"--Traci Brimhall, author of \u003cem\u003eCome the Slumberless to the Land of Nod\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143464149015,"sku":"9781636281421","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91s_3Fw0hfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778966412","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/saito-brynn-under-a-fupb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}