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"They Never Asked is a collection of work produced by Bara Ginsha members in the WCCA camp, based on a journal kept by Masaki Kinoshita. The senryu collected here were written by a group of twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems. Individually, the poems reflect the thoughts and feelings the authors experienced while being detained in the center; collectively, they reflect the resilience and resistance of a community denied freedom. Editors Shelley Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling, and Satsuki Takikawa present translations of the poems alongside the originals, supplemented by historical and literary context and a foreword by Duane Watari, Masaki Kinoshita's grandson"--
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Shelley Baker-Gard has degrees in anthropology and communications and is the current Haiku Society of America Coordinator for Oregon. She has been writing English haiku and senryū for many years and has been published in several literary journals, including
Frogpond.
Michael Freiling.works as a data scientist. He studied poetry with David Ferry at Wellesley, and helped co-found MIT's literary magazine
Rune. After earning his PhD, he was a Luce Scholar at Kyoto University, where he completed a translation of the Heian Period anthology
Hyaku Nin Isshu.
Satsuki Takikawa holds a degree in German literature from Sophia University in Tokyo and has taught English and German at schools in Kyoto and Sakai.
