{"product_id":"common-grace-poems-paperback","title":"Common Grace: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron Caycedo-Kimura\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wife\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, \u003ci\u003eCommon Grace\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 1, \"Soul Sauce,\" describes the poet's life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 2, 'Ubasute,\" is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein \"a grown son lifts \/ his aged mother on his back, \/ delivers her to a mountain, \/ leaves her to die.\" This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parents' decline and death, reaching back to his father's time in the American internment camps of WWII and his mother's memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the 2 outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 3, \"Gutter Trees,\" gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives they've built together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimura's poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Caycedo-Kimura\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and visual artist. His chapbook, \u003ci\u003eUbasute\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by Jennifer Franklin, Peggy Ellsberg, and Margo Taft Stever as the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition winner. His honors include a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the \u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRHINO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eupstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDMQ Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoet Lore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Heron Barks\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Caycedo-Kimura earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University and is also the author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eText, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life\u003c\/i\u003e (TarcherPerigee, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.47 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689532526655,"sku":"9780807015889","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/607006f99e6e404ed807689e939a379c.webp?v=1764985838","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/common-grace-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}