Evening Oracle

by Brandon Shimoda

isbn 9780988713758
2015
paperback
$14.00

About Evening Oracle

Winner of the 2016 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, EVENING ORACLE is composed of poems originally handwritten at night before sleep in the beds of friends and strangers in Japan (2011-2012), and passages from emails and letters to and from friends and family on the subjects of fruit, vegetables, and dying grandparents. Featuring original poems by Dot Devota and Hiromi Itō, and correspondence by Etel Adnan, Don Mee Choi, Phil Cordelli, Youna Kwak, Quinn Latimer, Mary Ruefle, Rob Schlegel, and Karen McAlister Shimoda, among others. Order from Small Press Distribution here.

This book was published in October 2015.

About the Author

Brandon Shimoda is the author of THE ALPS (Flim Forum, 2008), O BON (Litmus Press, 2011), THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS (Black Ocean, 2011), Portuguese (Octopus/Tin House, 2014), and EVENING ORACLE (Letter Machine Editions, 2015). He also co-edited (with Thom Donovan) TO LOOK AT THE SEA IS TO BECOME WHAT ONE IS: AN ETEL ADNAN READER (Nightboat Books, 2014). Born in California, he lives presently nowhere.

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