{"title":"Aaron Caycedo-Kimura","description":"\u003cp\u003eAaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer, visual artist, and educator who holds an MFA in creative writing from Boston University and teaches at Trinity College and the University of Hartford. His poetry draws on Japanese American heritage, family memory, and intergenerational loss, moving between intimate elegy and ekphrastic exploration. His chapbook \u003cem\u003eUbasute\u003c\/em\u003e (Slapering Hol Press, 2021) won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, tracing his parents' experiences of World War II Japanese internment and the Tokyo firebombings. His debut full-length collection, \u003cem\u003eCommon Grace\u003c\/em\u003e (Beacon Press, 2022), expands that lyric vision across cultures, generations, and artistic forms. His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship, and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"common-grace-poems","title":"Common Grace: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wife\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, \u003ci\u003eCommon Grace\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 1, \"Soul Sauce,\" describes the poet's life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 2, 'Ubasute,\" is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein \"a grown son lifts \/ his aged mother on his back, \/ delivers her to a mountain, \/ leaves her to die.\" This concept frames a wrenching portrayal of his parents' decline and death, reaching back to his father's time in the American internment camps of WWII and his mother's memories of the firebombing of Tokyo. It also anchors the 2 outer parts in the racial trauma and joys passed down from his parents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart 3, \"Gutter Trees,\" gives us affecting love poems to his wife and the creative lives they've built together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging in scope from private moments to the sweep of familial heritage, Caycedo-Kimura's poems are artful, subtle, but never quiet.","brand":"Aaron Caycedo-Kimura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793342300202,"sku":"9780807015889","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/common-grace-poems-4907698.jpg?v=1762150259"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/aaron-caycedo-kimura.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}