{"id":503,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sachiko-murakami\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:11:44","slug":"murakami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachiko Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sachiko Murakami was born in Vancouver. She completed an M.A. degree in creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal in 2006. The poems that comprised her thesis were published in 2008 as The Invisibility Exhibit<\/em>.  Murakami currently resides in Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Get Me Out of Here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Talonbooks, 2015.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is it often so difficult to stay present in the moment? Poet Sachiko Murakami asked this question in an open call on the Internet, and in airports across the globe, from YVR (Vancouver) to RKV (Reykjavik), people in transit stopped to note in only one sentence their impressions of things, events, people, and feelings. The poems that result from this experiment in crowd-sourcing content search departures and arrivals for a handhold on the fleeting present. Working within and wriggling out of the formal constraint of fourteen lines, Get Me Out of Here<\/em> explores what poems need to do to stay<\/em> when the mind is begging to leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Invisibility Exhibit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Talonbooks, 2008.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These poems were written in the political and emotional wake of the “Missing Women” of Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside. \u2026
As the title suggests, the concern of this project is an investigation of the troubled relationship between this specific marginalized neighbourhood, its “invisible” populations both past and present, and the wealthy, healthy city that surrounds it. These poems interrogate the comfortable distance from which the public consumes the sensationalist news story by turning their focus toward the normative audience, the equally invisible public. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards–Poetry (English) (Finalist)
2009 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets) (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rebuild<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Talonbooks, 2011.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a city ironically famous for its natural setting, the roving subject\u2019s gaze naturally turns upward, past the condo towers which frame the protected \u201cview corridors\u201d at the heart of Vancouver\u2019s municipally- guaranteed development plan. But look for the city, and one encounters \u201ca kind of standing wave of historical vertigo, where nothing ever stops or grounds one\u2019s feet in free-fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murakami approaches the urban centre through its inhabitants\u2019 greatest passion: real estate, where the drive to own is coupled with the practice of tearing down and rebuilding. Like Dubai, where the marina looks remarkably like False Creek, Vancouver has become as much a city of cranes and excavation sites as it is of ocean and landscape. Rebuild<\/em> engraves itself on the absence at the city\u2019s centre, with its vacant civic square and its bulldozed public spaces. The poems crumble in the time it takes to turn the page, words flaking from the line like the rain-damaged stucco of a leaky condominium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recovery narrative has a known form: what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like today. In a poem, what can be arranged or interpreted with such certainty, by whom, and to what end? What is the relationship of the performance of recovery via a poem to the truth of the experience? Does one deliver the other? Insert into these considerations the experience of traumas. How is trauma converted by post-trauma experiences? What is the retribution of that experience when articulated as poetry? Enter these questions through the dream, with its unrenderable subjects, landscapes, and plots. Where do dreams meet poetry in their spontaneous, opaque, necessary structures? What do such comparisons yield to the waking reader? What can be rendered intelligible in the soup of long-term recovery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2020 Governor General’s Literary Award–Poetry, English language (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ballantyne, Emily. \u201cRearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild<\/em>: Sachiko Murakami’s Architectural Poetics of Community.\u201d In Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics<\/em>, edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015, 177-198.
PS8155.1 .P82 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chan, Sunny. \u201cConsensual Hallucinations: Cyberspace, Narrative, and Poetics in Asian North American Literature.\u201d Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012.
Available as an open access thesis<\/a> from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sachiko Murakami personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Talonbooks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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