They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

In 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration forcibly held these Japanese Americans at the Portland Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to newly built permanent incarceration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870712357
• ISBN13: 9780870712357
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"