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Informationen zum Autor Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Klappentext "A poetry collection exploring the author's personal life, the passing of his parents, and his close relationship with his wife"-- Zusammenfassung The first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wife In 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, Common Grace offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love. Part 1, “Soul Sauce,” describes the poet’s life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound. Part 2, ‘Ubasute,” is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein “a grown son lifts / his aged mother on his back, / delivers her to a mountain, / leaves her to die.” This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parents’ decline and death, reaching back to his father’s time in the American internment camps of WWII and his mother’s memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the 2 outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents. Part 3, “Gutter Trees,” gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives they’ve built together. Ranging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimura’s poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Soul Sauce Family Anthem Chopsticks Cal Tjader titling a poem En Plein Air at Silver Sands State Park Winter Psalm Roseland Elementary, 1969 Sunflowers Elegy for Mrs. Mullane In the Studio North on Route 101 daily news La Sidrería Taxi de Toledo Duende Misfortuned Turning Forty-Nine Fishboned Cross My Heart, Hope to Die Autumnal Equinox dying II. Ubasute The Moon of Ubasute Burial Hand Tilling Watching Grass Grow Ride Home The Miss Anita Casting Ritual Screaming Crows The Hardest Part Moving On Leaving Artificial Flavors Solidarity Post-War Occupation When You’re the Son What’s Kept Alive Mom Deciding Hama Delayed Memorial Tokyo Army Hospital, 1957 Afternoon Infusion III. Gutter Trees Nest Five Minutes on High Tripe Soup Taste Test On United Flight 2309 marking territory Riff Migration Staircase End of October The Fern Owl Seasons Common Grace Away in Boston, Riding the Green Line The Art of Shoveling Snow New Year’s Day Foraging, July 2020 If this were the day humility Gutter Trees Acknowledgments Notes ...
