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Summary
Matsuda's poems break for us all the Japanese-American code of silence (gaman) toward the indignities of the nine U.S. government-mandated internment camps of WWII like Minidoka in Idaho where Matsuda was born. He not only educates us in the specifics of the suffering of this time, but also brings us into the transgenerational implications of it, connecting this shameful period to both the war in Iraq and the bombing of Hiroshima, where one of his relatives survived near ground zero...
Title
A Cold Wind from Idaho: Poems
Author
Matsuda, Lawrence
Publisher
Black Lawrence Press
Date
2010
Object ID
2003.500.4307