Foreign Wife Elegy

By Yuko Taniguchi

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

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.