Brian Komei Dempster

Broschiertes Buch

Topaz

Beschreibung

Topaz explores the immediate and lingering effects of WWII prison camps on Japanese American families and on future generations

Autor

Brian Komei Dempster is an award-winning poet, editor, and teacher. His volumes of poetry, Seize (Four Way Books, 2020) and Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013), have received several honors, including the Julie Suk Award, an NCPA Gold Award in Poetry, and a Human Relations Indie Book Silver Winner award. He is the editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps (Kearny Street Workshop, 2001), which received a Nisei Voices Award from the National Japanese American Historical Society, and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement (Heyday, 2011). Dempster is a professor of rhetoric and language and Co-Director of the Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence at the University of San Francisco, where he was a recipient of the Dean's Scholar Award and Distinguished Teaching Award. In addition, he teaches for the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference. He was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Four Way Books
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9781935536338
• ISBN-10: 1935536338
• Artikelnr.: 38030321