{"id":19892,"date":"2025-04-08T19:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19892"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:36:34","slug":"sho-yamagushiku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sho-yamagushiku\/","title":{"rendered":"sh\u014d yamagushiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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sh\u014d yamagushiku is a diasporic Okinawan poet living in the homelands of the Lekwungen and W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 peoples (Victoria, BC). In an interview with Nevada Alde published 28 March 2025 in the online Victoria Buzz<\/a>, he identifies as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian writer and researcher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

shima: poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2024.
PS8647.A54 S55 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

shima<\/em> 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\u2019s 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, I am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say<\/em>.

Speaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, shima<\/em> anchors this interrogation of the relationship between father and son in the fragile connective tissue of memory where the poet\u2019s homeland is an impossible destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize<\/a> (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)(Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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