Hydra Medusa

By Brandon Shimoda

Book Overview

​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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621718
• ISBN13: 9781643621715
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"