Book’s focus on the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster provides opportunities for crossover media into larger markets interested in environmental consequences, and disaster similar in scope to Chernobyl Strong blurbs forthcoming; author’s previous work has been lauded by Ishmael Reed, Stephanie Burt, and Ray Gonzalez Author is Poet Laureate of South Dakota Author has been widely published in Poetry , Poem-a-Day, and Southeast Review
Based on sources as diverse as Heian period female Japanese writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, acclaimed poet Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fourth collection explores a series of “word betrayals”—English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of...
