Acclaimed poet, essayist, educator, feminist and human rights activist, Mitsuye May Yamada has released her newest collection of poetry, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems. Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan and grew up in Seattle, Washington. As a teenager, she was incarcerated at Minidoka concentration camp along with her family. After the war, Yamada was one of the first and most vocal of Asian American women writers who wrote about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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Mitsuye Yamada

Poetry book by
Mitsuye Yamada

UCSB DEPT OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Full Circle:
New and Selected Poems

by Mitsuye Yamada

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Full Circle New and Selected Poems

Mitsuye Yamada
Foreword by Cherríe Moraga
Essays by Diane C. Fujino and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Acclaimed poet, essayist, educator, feminist and human rights activist, Mitsuye May Yamada has released her newest collection of poetry, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems. Yamada was born in Kyushu, Japan and grew up in Seattle, Washington. As a teenager, she was incarcerated at Minidoka concentration camp along with her family. After the war, Yamada was one of the first and most vocal of Asian American women writers who wrote about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. She has authored poetry collections, Camp Notes and Other Poems(1976) and Desert Run: Poems and Stories(1988).
Now, at the age of 96, she has released her latest work, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems(2019).

About the Publisher: The Department of Asian American Studies at UCSB

The Department of Asian American Studies at UCSB was the very first academic department dedicated to the study of Asian Americans at a major research university, and the first department in the United States to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian American Studies.

The Department offers undergraduate majors the opportunity to study and understand the experiences of Asian Americans, particularly their histories, communities, and cultures. Students learn to evaluate the existing literature in Asian American Studies, to analyze a variety of data on Asian Americans, to conduct original research, and to participate in internships and social justice issues.

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Whether she writes from the landscape of the desert, the interiors of home, or the struggle of Japanese Americans, Mitsuye Yamada’s poetry is a gift to American literature.

— Nellie Wong
author

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Mitsuye Yamada is one of the great matriarchs of Asian-American literature … a true “poet of witness,” one who lived through almost a century of American chaos: from emigration to internment camps, from nuclear disaster to multiple forms of institutionalized social and racial injustice…. Her work is as beautiful as it is necessary and will inspire many generations to come.

— Marilyn Chin
author of A Portrait of the Self as Nation

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“Her reflections of the camp are vivid, pain-filled, weighed with irony … She confronts the invisibility of Asian American women in American Culture.”