Roy Miki's first poetry collection is an arresting, cleanly conceived series of meditations on the ties of family and place witnessed from his own place as a third-generation Japanese-Canadian. These exquisitely balanced poems trace the fragility of ancestral bonds.
"The drama of Roy's life-his family, politics, community, his unswerving passion for justice-is transformed here into burning coals that glow through the long, cold night."
-Joy...
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