Description
Hiromi Yoshida's second poetry chapbook, Epicanthus, offers a lyrical panorama of fortune cookies, TV dinners, Chinese lanterns, and Japanese war brides. Such iconic American commodities and handpicked orientalia coexist with Japanese grandmothers, Taiwanese fathers, and lost-and-found German cousins-unfurling a palimpsest of transpacific Asian American relocations and dislocations, the epicanthus being the arbitrary threshold where the psychodrama of racial identity formation takes place. The hooded eye winks back, a coy invitation to the poet's ingeniously reinvented worlds. At once deeply personal and searingly historical, these new poems provide unforgettable snapshots of Asian American life.
Author: Hiromi Yoshida
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 46
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d
ISBN13: 9781646626601
ISBN10: 1646626605
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | Women Authors
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