Camp notes and other writings
Subtitle: Mitsuye Yamada.
Contributors: Yamada, Mitsuye.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Japanese American women -- Literary collections.; Japanese Americans -- Literary collections.
Description: Mitsuye Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan, and raised in Seattle, Washington, until the outbreak of World War II when her family was removed to a concentration camp in Idaho. Camp Notes and Other Writings recounts this experience. Yamada's poetry yields a terse blend of emotions and imagery. Her twist of words creates a twist of vision that make her poetry come alive. The weight of her cultural experience - the pain of being perceived as an outsider all of her life - permeates her work.

Yamada's strength as a poet stems from the fact that she has managed to integrate both individual and collective aspects of her background, giving her poems a double impact. Her strong portrayal of individual and collective life experience stands out as a distinct thread in the fabric of contemporary literature by women.
Notes: Originally published separately: Camp notes and other poems. San Lorenzo, Calif. : Shameless Hussy Press, c1976; and Desert run. Latham, NY : Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, c1988.