{"product_id":"chronicle-of-drifting-9781556597053","title":"Chronicle of Drifting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Drifting\u003c\/i\u003e enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuki Tanaka's stunning debut, \u003cem\u003eChronicle of Drifting\u003c\/em\u003e, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka's restless imagination roams among places and personae--a village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a fl?neur 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuki Tanaka\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised on a small\u003cbr\u003eisland in Yamaguchi, Japan. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, The\u003cbr\u003eNew Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He has cotranslated, \u003cbr\u003ewith Mary Jo Bang, \u003ci\u003eA Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo\u003cbr\u003eTakiguchi, \u003c\/i\u003e published by Princeton University Press. He lives in Tokyo\u003cbr\u003eand teaches at Hosei University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201531085074,"sku":"9781556597053","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ccbbcb3-e9b0-4b85-a728-5cd4d0873263.jpg?v=1744913983","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chronicle-of-drifting-9781556597053","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}