Basic Vocabulary by Amy Uyematsu

Title	:	Basic Vocabulary
Author	:	Amy Uyematsu
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ISBN	:	1597097284
ISBN-10	:	9781597097284
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	104
Publication	:	Published January 10, 2016

Amy Uyematsu's latest poetry collection, Basic Vocabulary , confronts today's complex world of drone warfare and post 9/11 unease with boldness, curiosity, candor, and insight. She unites the political and spiritual and welcomes what she Elegant disorder / even my mind / leaping branch to branch.

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Amy Uyematsu - Amy Uyematsu (born in 1947) is a Japanese American poet. She is a third generation Japanese American from Pasadena, California. A graduate of UCLA in mathematics, Amy became active in Asian American Studies in the late sixties. As a college senior, she penned the essay “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America” (Gidra, 1969), an assertion of Asian American identity influenced by the consciousness raising theories of the Black Power movement.That same year she joined the staff of the newly formed UCLA Asian American Studies Center, where she co edited the widely used anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971).In the 1970s she was involved in what would become known as the Asian American movement. Modeled after the Black Power movemen Amy Uyematsu (born in 1947) is a Japanese Amer...

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