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Okaerinasai
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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Wet Cement Press
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
Tony Wallin Sato is indeed one of the young contemporary poets for whom Whitman has stopped somewhere and happily waited. -Bill Mohr
A collection of Zen infused poetry reflecting on the author's experience with incarceration and his encounters with others in the carceral state. What imprisons us, and what makes us free is a theme that runs like a wild river through the poems and prose of this collection.
Okaerinasai which roughly translates as welcome back home weaves together Wallin-Sato's adventures as a young Japanese-American in California struggling with addiction to his redemptive adult work as a re-entry advocate for the formerly incarcerated. A series of riveting accounts of gate pickups when the author and his network greet former prisoners in their first hours of freedom, form a cinematic backdrop to meditations on Dogen's Zen teachings and lyric reflections on the wilderness of California's North Coast.
The confined and the limitless, play differing chords in Wallin-Sato's poetry, infused in equal parts with the transcendence of the natural world and the injustice of our urban streets. Echos of Basho, and Bukowski sound through the work, with a powerful breadth of language that remains at its heart a fierce reparation for all that is false and broken.
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