Relocation (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Mura
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Family or family life, Tradition, Gambling, Marriage, World War II, 1920’s, Emotions, Flowers, Immigration or emigration, Christianity, Grandparents or grandchildren, Japan or Japanese people, Buddhism, Concentration camps
The Poem
“Relocation,” a poem of forty-seven lines, has four major sections separated by asterisks. Within each major section are three four-line stanzas, with the exception of the first section, which has only two stanzas, and an italicized haiku that concludes the final section. The poem’s dedication reads, “for Grandfather Uyemura,” the central character in the poem. It is his several “relocations” that the poem describes. The physical removals from Japan to America, within America, and back to Japan are sometimes voluntary and sometimes coerced, and they...
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