The Desert

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections--featuring poems, letters, diary entries, and photographs--the desert's multiplicity emerges through a ranging exploration of its Japanese American incarceration sites, homeless population, flora and fauna, violence, beauty, and how they combine to reflect this poet's contemporary view of history. Written over three years in the deserts of Arizona, the poet introduces us to the souls of the living and dead, their shadows still residing over the landscape and its mythology.

• The Grave on the Wall
• All They Will Call You (Camino del Sol)
• Evening Oracle
• Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (New York Review Books Classics)
• Quiereme
• At the Bottom of the River
• Don't Let Them See Me Like This
• WHEREAS: Poems
• Parole (FIELD Poetry Series)
• Interrogation Room