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They Never Asked - Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center (Paperback)
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They Never Asked - Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center (Paperback)
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In 1942, after the passage of Executive Order 9066, Japanese
families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima
Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition
Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The
Wartime Civil Control Administration kept internees at the Portland
Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to
newly built permanent internment camps at Minidoka, Heart Mountain,
and Tule Lake. The Japanese American communities in Oregon and
southern Washington were relatively small and many of the detainees
knew each other; they drew on existing family and community
networks to help each other through the long summer, living in
inhumane conditions under the constant threat of violence. Several
members of Bara Ginsha, a Portland poetry group, decided to
continue their work while incarcerated, primarily by writing
senryū, a type of Japanese poetry related to haiku. They Never
Asked is a collection of work produced by Bara Ginsha members in
the WCCA camp, based on a journal kept by Masaki Kinoshita. The
senryū collected here were written by a group of twenty-two poets,
who produced hundreds of poems. Individually, the poems reflect the
thoughts and feelings the authors experienced while being detained
in the Center; collectively, they reflect the resilience and
resistance of a community denied freedom. Editors Shelley
Baker-Gard, Michael Freiling, and Satsuki Takikawa present
translations of the poems alongside the originals, supplemented by
historical and literary context and a foreword by Duane Watari,
Masaki Kinoshita’s grandson.
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