The Last House in Manzanar, and: Lullaby

Abstract

Abstract:Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of the ten camps for Japanese American incarceration, was a surveillance site with eyes. This poem "cruises" history and considers the queer encounters in the open space of eyes meeting.Abstract:This poem enters the dreamworld of Japanese American internment, depicted as a slow, dull violence in the shadow of American history.