Camp Notes and Other Poems (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Mitsuye Yamada
- First Published: 1976
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Suffering, World War II, Ethnic groups, Captivity, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans, Concentration camps, Calligraphy
The Work
The poems in Camp Notes and Other Poems originated in the experience of a concentration camp. Mitsuye Yamada and her family were interned with other Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II. Yamada spent April, 1942, through September, 1943, at the internment camp near Minidoka, Idaho. Inmates could have few possessions; Yamada brought a tablet of paper on which she recorded her reflections on life in the camp. To the poems from this period she later added others concerning the time preceding and the time following the camp experience.
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