La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living - Couverture souple

Hasegawa, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1632430789 ISBN 13 : 9781632430786

Editeur : Omnidawn, 2020

Synopsis

From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imagined. Jennifer Hasegawa scans across physical and mental planes to reveal their inhabitants. Packed tightly into exploratory rocket segments, these poems ignite our gravest flaws to send our grandest potentials into orbit.

Hasegawa’s poems not only rearrange our ways of seeing the world, but they also reset the language we use in it. Banzai, with a literal translation of “10,000 years,” was used by the Japanese as a rallying cry in imperialistic and militaristic contexts. Today, the understanding of this word has shifted to a comparatively neutral translation of the enthusiastic expression “Hurrah!” in both in Japan and beyond. In La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living, Hasegawa aims to reclaim banzai, recasting the language of war and unwavering loyalty and forming it into one that stands against aggression and racism and embraces tolerance and self-acceptance. Here banzai becomes a rallying cry not of war but of grand potential. La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living chronicles a celebratory life and poetry filled with wonder.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Hasegawa is the author of La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living, which was longlisted for The Believer Book Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in the Adroit Journal, Bamboo Ridge, Bennington Review, jubilat, Tule Review, and Vallum. She is the founder of the Kau Kau Chronicles (kaukauchronicles.org), a website dedicated to preserving and sharing recipes from out-of-print cookbooks published by Hawai'i community organizations from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first century. Hasegawa is a third-generation Japanese American, born and raised on the Big Island of Hawai'i, and she currently lives in San Francisco.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Omnidawn
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632430789
• ISBN 13: 9781632430786
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible