Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda was born in California, and has since lived in eleven states and six countries, most recently Maine, Taiwan and Arizona. In addition to O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), he is the author of The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011) and The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008), as well as numerous limited edition chapbooks, including The Grave on the Wall (DoubleCross, 2011), Lake M: Book One (Corollary Press, 2010), The Inland Sea (Tarpaulin Sky, 2008) and, with poet/artist Phil Cordelli, The Pines, Volumes 1-6. He is co-editing, with poet/critic Thom Donovan, a retrospective collection of Etel Adnan’s poetry and prose, to be published by Nightboat Books in 2013.

Brandon is currently compiling a collection of images and videos at vispoetica.tumblr.com and a bibliography/collection of images and testimonials on the subject of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at hiroshimalibrary.tumblr.com.

• Jerome Rothenberg feature. February 13, 2012.
• PEN.org’s holiday round-up of small press releases. December 15, 2011.
• University of Arizona Poetry Center advance praise. November 2011.
• Small Press Distribution Poetry Best-Seller. November - December 2011.