Foreign Wife Elegy

By Yuko Taniguchi

Subjects: Japanese American women, American women authors, Women authors, Japan, poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Japanese American authors, Japanese American women authors, American poetry, Poetry, Asian American authors, History, Asian American women authors

Description: This debut collection bears witness to the compassion of nurses, the hardships of injury and illness, and the solitude brought on by marrying outside one’s culture. In these quiet and deceptively simple poems, Taniguchi’s words become a haven for human frailties and peaceful reflection.