Dark Soil

Angie Sijun Lou is a Kundiman Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, and Amerasia Journal. She lives in Oakland. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of eight books (including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently Sansei and Sensibility), all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and a United States Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Editorial Introduction


Fiction by Karen Tei Yamashita

"Mystery Spot"

"The Missing Testicles of Padre Q/Los Compañeros Ausentes del Padre Q"

"The Brother's Parking Lot"

"Frutos Extraños"

"Quimosabe"

"This Is Someone's Paradise"

"Santa Cruz Chinatown"

"Indian Summer"

"Midsummer Night's Dream"

"Neverneverland"

Afterword

Santa Cruz Nori Coordinates




Mythographies

"801 Silver Avenue after Hom Wong Shee" by Brandon Shimoda – San Francisco, CA

"(De)Tour of an Unincorporated Territory" by Craig Santos Perez – Mongmong-Toto-Maite, Guam

"506 N. Evergreen Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033" by Sesshu Foster – Los Angeles, CA

"Navel, Bury" by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint – Amherst, MA

"A Pale Persephone: On the Video Works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha" by Angie Sijun Lou – New York, NY

"Whether the Border Looks Out from Eight Hundred and Fifty Eyes, or Two, the MBQ Remains Few Though on the Rise" by Saretta Morgan – Sasabe, AZ

"After Silent Incantations, the Intertidal" by Ronaldo V. Wilson – Berkeley, CA

"The Blue Plume" by Juliana Spahr – Cheshire, OH

Dark Soil Coordinates