Hydra Medusa /
A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands. Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child, during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
[2023].
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| Summary: | A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands. Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child, during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise. Encountering the ghosts of Japanese American ancestors, friends, children and bodies of water, it asks what is the desert but a site where people have died, are dying; are buried, unburied, memorialized, erased. Where they are trying, against and within the energy of it all, to contend with our inherited present and to live. |
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| Physical Description: | 144 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781643621715 1643621718 |