Book Description from Back Cover

Here the infinite and minute nurture one another, and “heaven needs us” as much as we yearn for the sacred. Along with words and numbers, Uyematsu reveres stones—stones that listen to “the rustle our feet make/ even when we leave,” a stone that spirals into the center of a pond in ever-widening circles, the ancient heart of stone which brings us closer to this mystery we know as life. Spanning the grassy plains of China and coasts of Japan to the wisteria-lined streets of Southern California, Stone Bow Prayer expands one woman’s unorthodox vision into an exhilarating illumination of the whole.

Comments from Back Cover

"Amy Uyematsu is a visionary cartographer who maps the twisting path of history with clarifying insight…. Her voice, whether humorous and pointed, tempered by pain, or joyously celebratory, is always arresting."
- Amerasia Journal

"Uyematsu's style is rueful, easy, and clear. Language becomes a calm ribbon of water through which we see the speaker's tenderness and pain. Stones, simple objects of nature, invoke love and the loss of love, and often serve as her muses. The maturity and wisdom in her lines give us faith in the speaker's honesty."
- Parnassus: Poetry in Review

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