COURTING A MAN WHO DOESN'T TALK
Poetry by Shizue Seigel
Coyotebrush Books, an imprint of Pease Press, 2024, 96 pp. $17.95
A wry and tender chronicle of love across difference.
"Breathtakingly fierce and honest poetry that smashes Asian American stereotypes and reveals complexities of love across race, class, age and religion. Provokes fist-pumping, sighing, cheering, and laughing throughout."
—Susan Kiyo Ito, I Would Meet You Anywhere
UNCOMMON GROUND: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism
Edited by Shizue Seigel
Pease Press, San Francisco, 2022. $22.95.
284 pp: 114 color images.ISBN: 978-1-7330590-3-9
ESSENTIAL TRUTHS: THE BAY AREA IN COLOR
Edited by Shizue Seigel
Pease Press, San Francisco, June 2021. $17.95
324 pp, 100 color images. ISBN: 978-0-9904173-9-2
200+ works of prose, poetry and visual art by 130 San Francisco Bay Area writers/artists of color and allies.
CIVIL LIBERTIES UNITED
Edited by Shizue Seigel
Pease Press, San Francisco, 2019. $17.95
300pp. 60+ B/W images. ISBN: 978-0-9904173-9-2
200+ works of prose, poetry and visual art by 100 San Francisco Bay Area writers/artists of color and allies.
ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENDURING VALUES
Edited by Shizue Seigel
Pease Press, San Francisco, 2018
272 pp., 90 color images. ISBN: 978-0-9904173-4-7
150+ works of prose, poetry, art and photography by 70 San Francisco Bay Area writers/artists of color
STANDING STRONG! FILLMORE & JAPANTOWN
Edited by Shizue Seigel
Pease Press, San Francisco, 2016
140pp.with B/W artwork. ISBN: 978-0-9904173-2-3.
Exploring multiple layers of displacement among African Americans and Japanese Americans in the Western Addition. Out of print. Available as a PDF.
IN GOOD CONSCIENCE: SUPPORTING JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING THE INTERNMENT
by Shizue Seigel
AACP, Inc, 2006, hardboound. $39.95
320 pp, 100 historic photographs. ISBN 0-934609-18-7
Vivid portraits of two dozen teachers, ministers and just plain folks who stood up against the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Briings new insight into what transforms ordinary people into extraordinary advocates for justice and compassion.
MY FIRST HUNDRED YEARS: THE MEMOIRS OF NELLIE NAKAMURA, 1902-2002
by Shizue Seigel and Nellie Nakamura, with Margaret Emmy Cooper
Pease Press, 2019. $20
8.5 x 11 in, paperback. 197pp, 100 photos. ISBN 978-0990-4173-8-5
The Nakamura family journey from 1868 Meiji-era Japan to California orchards, WWII-era Heart Mountain, WY, incarceration camp; and resettlement in what was about to become Silicon Valley. Nellie's oral history about daily life is backdropped by key historial moments in US and world history.(First published in 2003 as A Century of Change: The Memoirs of Nellie Yae Sumie Nakamura).
TALKING TO STRANGERS mini publication series
Poetry, prose and artwork by Bay Area BIPOCs: Shizue Seigel/
C.K. Itamura, Lina Begonia/Candi Kinyobi, Kevin Madrigal /Kelsey Krach, Dawn Angelicca Barcelona/Cece Carpio, Janice Hom/Max Leung/Shizue Seigel, Andre Le Monte Wilson/Robert Fischer, Tony Aldorondo/Victor Navarette, Roji Oyama, Dondi Dancy/Karin Turner, Rishad Harbob-Sangy, Leslie-Yee-Murata/Karen Hom. Collector's set: $10.