{"product_id":"epicanthus-9781646626601","title":"Epicanthus","description":"\u003cp\u003eHiromi Yoshida's second poetry chapbook, \u003cem\u003eEpicanthus\u003c\/em\u003e, offers a lyrical panorama of fortune cookies, TV dinners, Chinese lanterns, and Japanese war brides. Such iconic American commodities and handpicked orientalia coexist with Japanese grandmothers, Taiwanese fathers, and lost-and-found German cousins-unfurling a palimpsest of transpacific Asian American relocations and dislocations, the epicanthus being the arbitrary threshold where the psychodrama of racial identity formation takes place. The hooded eye winks back, a coy invitation to the poet's ingeniously reinvented worlds. At once deeply personal and searingly historical, these new poems provide unforgettable snapshots of Asian American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoshida, Hiromi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - HIROMI YOSHIDA, one of Bloomington's finest and most outspoken poets, is a finalist for the 2019 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition for Icarus Burning. Her poems have been nominated for inclusion in the Sundress Best of the Net Anthology; selected for inclusion in the INverse Poetry Archive; and published in The Asian American Literary Review, Discover Nikkei, Gidra, Evergreen Review, and The Rain, Party, \u0026amp; Disaster Society. Hiromi repurposes Met Store catalogs, illuminated manuscript wall calendars, and Vanity Fair magazine issues, to create collage works with titles such as Exhibit A, Ménage-a-Trois, Jouissance, and The World after the Fall of Icarus. She also uses chopsticks to make scrambled eggs, and forks to eat cup ramen noodles at midnight.","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525759242514,"sku":"9781646626601","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee2206da-0bc1-4032-b35d-539e6cec6439.jpg?v=1731236298","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/epicanthus-9781646626601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}