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*Author's poetry and essays have been widely published in journals such as The Paris Review, Academy of American Poets, Iowa Review, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Brooklyn Rail, Harpers, Gulf Coasts, and many others. *Author has been selected for many prizes and scholarships, including the Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction grant, the PEN Open Book Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award from Poetry Society of Americ...

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In this memoir and book of mourning, a grandson attempts to reconcile his ownuncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.

While on the bus to elementary school in a small New England town, Brandon Shimoda--the offspring of a Japanese American father and white mother--was taunted for being "Portuguese." Shimoda's latest collection returns the author to a moment he felt challenged to become what he was being called, however falsely, and despite feeling confused, flushed, and afraid. The poems themselves began to form in adulthood while Shimoda--again riding the bus...