Foreign Wife Elegy
Poems that bridge the distance between Japan and America, offering solace in an ocean of displacement.
Poems that bridge the distance between Japan and America, offering solace in an ocean of displacement.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781566891486 (1566891485)
Publish date: February 1st 2004
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
The title of this collection exactly describes Taniguchi's pieces. Her primary themes are loneliness and survival: life as a Japanese wife to an American nurse, her desire to fit in, the legacy of her Hiroshima-survivor parents.There is a poignant sadness to her pieces: many of her poems are written...