Hydra Medusa

​A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands.

Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child--during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise. Encountering the ghosts of Japanese American ancestors, friends, children and bodies of water, it asks: what is the desert but a site where people have died, are dying; are buried, unburied, memorialized, erased. Where they are trying, against and within the energy of it all, to contend with our inherited present--and to live.

Author: Brandon Shimoda
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781643621715