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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

Baker-Gard, Shelley
Freiling, Michael
Takikawa, Satsuki

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0870712357
ISBN13: 9780870712357
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: Jun 1 2023
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American 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 forcibly held these Japanese Americans at the Portland Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to newly built permanent incarceration 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 imprisoned at the center, primarily by writing senryū, a type of Japanese poetry related to haiku.

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