"We learn from senryu that life is brief, our faults many, and the ways we deceive
ourselves innumerable. Senryu teaches us to be patient, to smile, to know the wisdom
of humility, and to be generous…in spirit."—Koyo (Susumu) Sato
The senryu poems of Miyoko Sato and Yukiko Abo open a window to the lives Japanese laborers
in the western Washington oyster industry. Both women were born in Washington in the first
quarter of the 20th century and both spent most of their lives working on Oyster Bay, in
Totten Inlet on Puget Sound....
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