Bøger af Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

From the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's newest collection arrives brimming with personal and political histories."e;'You tell me how I was born what I am,'"e; demands Naka-Hasebe Kingsley-of himself, of the reader, of the world. The poems of DA mos: An American Multitude seek answers in the Haudenosaunee story of The Lake and Her children; in the scope of a .243 aimed at a pregnant doe; in the DA gen poem jotted on a napkin by his obaasan; in a flag burning in a church parking lot. Here, Naka-Hasebe Kingsley places multiracial displacement, bridging disparate experiences with taut, percussive language that will leave readers breathless.With astonishing formal range, DA mos also documents the intolerance that dominates American society. What can we learn from mapping the genealogy of a violent and loud collective? How deeply do anger, violence, and oppression run in the blood? From adapted Punnett squares to Biblical epigraphs to the ghastly comment section of a local news website, DA mos diagrams surviving America as an other-ed American-and it refuses to flinch from the forces that would see that multitude erased.DA mos is a resonant proclamation of identity and endurance from one of the most intriguing new voices in American letters-a voice singing "e;long on America as One / body but many parts."e;

ΓÇ£From jump, there was such sonic, emotional, and intellectual drive to these poems, that I couldnΓÇÖt resistΓÇôwhy would I want toΓÇôthe pull of Benjam├¡n Naka-Hasebe KingsleyΓÇÖs vision and sensibility. Verve and ├⌐lan are words I might use, but they lack sufficient verve and ├⌐lan. And if I wrote, ΓÇÿhis future is bright, ΓÇÿ IΓÇÖd be wrongΓÇôhis future is here, and this book is as much fire as I can ask for.ΓÇ¥ —Bob Hicok, author of Hold