Poetry. "Shimoda's world is a hushed world—his book, a silent prayer, not to a god, but to life, the life of survivors—that one can whisper, can join the dead—that whisper turns into a ritualistic text, a celebration of witnessing, of the minute manifestations of reality.... Insinuating itself in the memory of Hiroshima and the bomb—a disaster surpassing disasters-his work is the saying of the dead who return, is a Requiem."—Etel Adnan

Brandon Shimoda was born in California and has since lived in eleven states and six countries, most recently Maine, Taiwan and Arizona. He is the author of O BON (Litmus Press, 2011), THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS (Black Ocean, 2011) and THE ALPS (Flim Forum Press, 2008), as well as numerous limited edition chapbooks, including The Grave on the Wall (DoubleCross Press, 2011), Lake M (Corollary Press, 2010), The Inland Sea, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008) and, with poet/artist Phil Cordelli, The Pines, Volumes 1-6. He is co-editing, with poet/critic Thom Donovan, a retrospective collection of Etel Adnan's poetry and prose, to be published by Nightboat Books in 2013.

Reviews and Other Links
audio: conversation with Joshua Marie Wilkinson @ The Pleistocene