The Yellow Door by Amy Uyematsu


The Yellow Door
Title : The Yellow Door
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ISBN : 1597094307
ISBN-10 : 9781597094306
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 112
Publication : First published April 2, 2015

Sansei Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door celebrates her Japanese-American roots and the profound changes that have occurred in her lifetime. As a woman born after World War II, her six decades in Los Angeles are captured in verse that link Hokusai woodblack paintings, her grandparents’ journeys to California, church parties playing Motown music, and Buddhist obon festivals. With the color yellow as a running theme, Uyematsu embraces “the idea of being a curious, sometimes furious yellow.” A genuine product of the sixties, she adds her own unique LA Buddhahead twist to Asian American identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Yellow Door Reviews

  • Pachyderm Bookworm

    With Mrs. Uyematsu herself having been a former high-school mathematics teacher, I am simultaneously neither stunned nor surprised, and yet all the more pleasantly stunned and surprised at both the deftness and density with which the Asian-American poet Amy Uyematsu approaches and applies to each and all of her poetic work she has presently (and most pleasantly) produced.

    Two importantly overwhelming (but never undervalued) themes employed in this volume are the recurring motif of the specific color yellow, and both the iffusion and infusion of historical allusions to much of the artistry expressed within the contents of this work.

    (The very first time I had seen the poet Amy Uyematsu's work was in a paper copy of Blue Mesa Review (New Mexico) purchased about or around 2008, if my current memory correctly serves.

    May you also be pleasant stunned and/or surprised at both the ability of said poet and also the accessibility she affords her readers as any who approach her work and craft may see.

  • Daryl Muranaka

    Another great book by one of my favorite Asian American poets. There are some writers you read and think, "I wish I wrote that." Amy Uyematsu is that poet for me. I looked forward for a few months for this book, and it didn't disappoint. The only thing I'm really sad about is that I'm finished.

  • Kenning JP Garcia

    Seriously potent writing.