{"title":"Sho Yamagushiku","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shima-book-sho-yamagushiku-9780771010927","title":"Shima","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize . Shortlisted for the 2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize . Shortlisted for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award . Longlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community. Come to haunt yamagushiku's practice of ancestor veneration are photographs and a narrative that spans his own life and a mythic parallel filled with a voice as spare as it is present, yearning as it is precise. The poet says, \u003ci\u003eI am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Speaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e anchors this interrogation of the relationship between father and son in the fragile connective tissue of memory where the poet's homeland is an impossible destination.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747360940305,"sku":"NGR9780771010927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006945001745,"sku":"NIN9780771010927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0771010923.jpg?v=1751075557"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-sho-yamagushiku.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}