Foriegnn Bodie

by Nada Gordon

Poetry. This long-overdue, luminously expressive volume collects poems, notebook fragments, Japanese/English vocabulary lists, and expatriate observations written during the author's eleven years in Japan. These delicately cadenced, sometimes hilarious, poems are filled with the realia of Japanese life, including station names, temples, butoh dancers, foods ("sexy sexy/sweet black bean dumpling") and found English ("Octopus army/ ordinary life should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962776238
• ISBN13: 9780962776236
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Detour Press
• Length: 96 Pages