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Brian Komei Dempster s Seize Credit: Courtesy of Four Way Books Poetâs search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate May 07, 2021 Topaz and Seize. His work considers what it is to be othered in America, historically and personally. The backdrops are the legacy of the Japanese internment camp era, the impact of anti-Asian bigotry, and the experience of raising a child with a disability. Komei Dempster is the editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in Americaâs Concentration Camps and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. It sounds paradoxical to call Seize an epic when it focuses on the individual, the everyday, the familiar and has a central figure who was diagnosed as âretarded, abnormal, impaired,â who hardly speaks, and who is greatly dependent on others. And yet that is the scale, importance, and achievement of Brian Kom ....
BOOKS: When Words Are Not Enough Posted On “Seize” by Brian Komei Dempster (Four Way Books) How does a father come to terms with the large and unknowable mysteries of a child who cannot communicate in a “normative” way? How does a parent especially one who is dependent on language guide a child without the use of speech? And how does one become the parents of another when their own uncertainties, their own wounds intergenerationally from war, from strained race relations, from constantly being denied a place to belong are still healing? “Seize,” Brian Komei Dempster’s follow-up to “Topaz,” spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and ailing child a child whose many medical problems create an obstacle course of moral and emotional dilemmas. ....