{"product_id":"notes-of-an-ordained-lay-buddhist-felon-traveling-japan-by-tony-koji-wallin-sato","title":"Notes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan by Tony Koji Wallin-Sato","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA lyrical pilgrimage across Japan and through the terrain of emotional inheritance, \u003cem\u003eNotes of an Ordained Lay Buddhist Felon Traveling Japan\u003c\/em\u003e braids together memoir, poetry, travel writing, and meditation. Addressing his mother in a series of letters being written across temples, train stations, steamy noodle shops, and neon-lit city streets, Tony Koji Wallin-Sato searches for a home that spans the Pacific and a self that is larger than the labels that have been imposed upon him. As he follows the tracings of his family, incarceration, addiction, harm and survival, this book is a testament to the enduring possibility of return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTony Koji Wallin-Sato\u003c\/strong\u003e is a multi-ancestral Nisei writer and carceral-impacted scholar. His chapbook, \u003cem\u003eHyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road\u003c\/em\u003e, was published through Cold River Press and his first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eBamboo on the Tracks: Sakura Snow\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Colt Peacemaker \u003c\/em\u003e(Finishing Line Press 2024) was selected by John Yau for the 2022 Robert Creeley Memorial Award. His second book of poems, \u003cem\u003eOkaerinasai\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Wet Cement Press and was a finalist for the 2024 \u003cem\u003eBig Other \u003c\/em\u003eReaders' Choice Award. His poetry, photography, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAsian American Writer's Workshop\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYellow Medicine Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLIT Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Delta Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Haymarket Book's AAPI Anthology \u003cem\u003eWe the Gathered Heat\u003c\/em\u003e and he recently won the 2026 USC National System Impacted Writer’s Contest's art category. All he wants is to see his community's thoughts, ideas, and emotions freely shared and expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Song Cave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67744461455533,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1614\/5743\/files\/TONYKOJIWALLINSATOCOVER-updated.jpg?v=1793222305","url":"https:\/\/the-song-cave.com\/products\/notes-of-an-ordained-lay-buddhist-felon-traveling-japan-by-tony-koji-wallin-sato","provider":"The Song Cave","version":"1.0","type":"link"}