There Books Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp

Adapted from the memoir Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto

She starts hosting informal artist salons

夜の静寂に包まれたイングリッシュベイに、花火が舞い降りる瞬間。🚤
空に広がる光の花が夢の中へ誘ってくれるよう。✨

Archival inkjet on archival watercolour paper

There Books Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLeanPoetry Roy Miki extends his exploration of the margins joining social and individual language, and of layers of history overlaying places. Canada, Asia, and Europe provide the local conditions where the authorial "I" engages with globalization, with the collision between otherness and spatialization. The serial poems comprising There contain a multiplicity of voices drawn from those the poet hears in conversation, advertising, historiography and