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MORE AMERICAN, Sharon Hashimoto. Off the Grid Press, Grid Books, Boston, MA, , 80 pages, $16 paper,
I knew Sharon Hashimoto in graduate school, and have long been an admirer.
Her first book of poetry, The Crane Wife, was a co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize, originally published by Story Line Press and now reprinted by Red Hen Press. It was a privilege, this morning, to read her book, More American.
Sharon hashimoto biography
Samuel Green, the inaugural Washington State Poet Laureate, writes of this book:
I often wonder whether the urge to share joy isn’t one of the most primal human urgencies. Perhaps that’s behind the impulse to read so many of the poems of Sharon Hashimoto’s More American aloud to someone else.
“Old memories are ghosts we walk through,” she says in one poem. Hashimoto knows how to let those ghosts bear witness without nostalgia in poems of reconciliation, tolerance, forgiveness, and the sort of love that understands it might never be seen for what it is&#; (back cover)
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