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A Cold Wind From Idaho
Contributor(s): Matsuda, Lawrence (Author)

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 ISBN: 0982636407     ISBN-13: 9780982636404
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
OUR PRICE: $13.30  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- History | Military - World War Ii
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.35 lbs) 120 pages
 
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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, resulting in a cataclysmic series of events affecting all persons of Japanese ancestry then residing on the West Coast of the United States. So calamitous were these actions that a noted scholar asserted that this action constitutes the defining event in the history of Japanese Americans. What does this have to do with a book of poetry titled A COLD WIND FROM IDAHO? Those Americans familiar with the Pacific Northwest Japanese American World War II experience will understand the imagery wrought by the title as being both evocative and apt. The metaphor of freezing winter winds chilling the body and then entering the soul of those affected conveys fittingly how the Japanese Issei and Japanese American Nisei encountered, braved, and then survived the cold iciness of Idaho's winters while they were huddled in a primitive American barbed wire concentration camp.
 
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