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Poet’s search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate
May 07, 2021
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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 America’s 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 “retarded, abnormal, impaired,” who hardly speaks, and who is greatly dependent on others. And yet that is the scale, importance, and achievement of Brian Kom ....

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