The Desert Shakespeare

The Desert ShakespeareBrandon Shimoda Brandon Shimodas The Desert, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award winning book Evening Oracle, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections featuring poems, letters, diary entries, and photographs the deserts multiplicity emerges through a ranging exploration of its Japanese American incarceration sites, homeless population, flora and fauna, violence,

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as well as what we don't look at and why

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As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand

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which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country