Chronicle of drifting / Yuki Tanaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanaka, Yuki, author.

Standardized Title:

Chronicle of drifting (Compilation)

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 69 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Chronicle of Drifting enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism. Yuki Tanaka's stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka's restless imagination roams among places and personae -- a village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flâneur in Tokyo -- searching for a permanent self and a sense of community. In the feverish world of these poems, inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku, as well as by timeless surrealism, one meets a light-lashed horse, an imaginary chauffeur, an out-of-business psychic, a girl who skewers a fish with a flower stalk. In poems ranging from lyric to prose, Tanaka creates a poignant dreamlike realm where the inner and outer worlds, the self and others, merge -- like the train passenger who, looking out the window and seeing the sky through his reflection, feels "empty, a blue outline.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

One. Prognosis at midnight

The village of the mermaids

The air is an exquisite boneless princess

Death in parentheses

Seasonal pleasure in the time of war

Homecoming

I was born in a mountain next to my brother

Like one who has mingled freely with the world

Two. Exhibition of desire

The empire of light

The body in fragments

Three. Chronicle of drifting

Four. Ghost in waiting

Afterlife

Anatomy

Discourse on vanishing

One arm

Aubade

Šance in Daylight

Evidence of Nocturne.

Other Format:

Online version : Tanaka, Yuki. Chronicle of drifting

ISBN:

9781556597053

1556597053

OCLC:

1446794280