The yellow door
Subtitle: poems
By: Amy Uyematsu
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781597094306
Subjects: American poetry; Japanese Americans; Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Sansei Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door celebrates her Japanese-American roots and the profound changes that have occurred in her lifetime. As a woman born after World War II, her six decades in Los Angeles are captured in verse that link Hokusai woodblack paintings, her grandparents' journeys to California, church parties playing Motown music, and Buddhist obon festivals. With the color yellow as a running theme, Uyematsu embraces "the idea of being a curious, sometimes furious yellow." A genuine product of the sixties, she adds her own unique LA Buddhahead twist to Asian American identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--