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Amy UyematsuWHAT BOOKS PRESS TITLE:
That Blue Trickster Time AMY UYEMATSU (1947-2023) was a sansei (third-generation Japanese American) poet and teacher from Los Angeles. She published six collections, the most recent being That Blue Trickster Time from What Books Press, 2022. Her first collection, 30 Miles from J-Town, won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Amy taught high school math for LA Unified Schools for 32 years. Active in Asian American Studies when it first emerged in the late 60s, she was co-editor of the widely-used UCLA anthology, Roots: An Asian American Reader.
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