Overview
In 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, Common Grace offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love.
Part 1, āSoul Sauce,ā describes the poetās 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, āUbasute,ā is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein āa grown son lifts / his aged mother on his back, / delivers her to a mountain, / leaves her to die.ā This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parentsā decline and death, reaching back to his fatherās time in the American internment camps of WWII and his motherās memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the two outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents.
Part 3, āGutter Trees,ā gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives theyāve built together.
Ranging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimuraās poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet.
This book title, Common Grace (Poems), ISBN: 9780807015889, by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, published by Beacon Press (October 4, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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