Brandon Shimoda
Brandon Shimoda is an American poet and essayist whose work explores memory, history, and Japanese American incarceration. He is the author of books including The Grave on the Wall and Evening Oracle and is active in contemporary poetry communities in the United States.
Books
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1. The Grave On The Wall
A lyrical, hybrid work of memoir and investigation that reconstructs the life and afterlife of a Japanese immigrant grandfather, whose portrait found in a former detention site becomes a portal into histories of incarceration, migration, and war. Moving through photographs, archives, and pilgrimages across the U.S. and Japan, it meditates on ghosts, grief, and the inheritance of violence. The result is an elegy and an inquiry into how families and nations remember—and forget.
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