num_pages: 96
description: The Crane Wife was selected from more than eight hundred entries. This brilliant debut volume explores and celebrates the author's Japanese heritage in the great Northwest. From "Because You Showed Me a Piece of Barbed Wire"Because you showed me a piece of barbed wirethat had lain on the roadbeside a lone signmarking all that remained of -barracks,rowed and eclipsed by the shadowof Heart Mountain, I thoughtof my mother beginning her tour of Japan. Whatwould she say if she saw me with a piece of her pastcupped in her hand? Sharon Hashimoto is a writing instructor at Highline Community College in Midway, Washington.
language: English
title: The Crane Wife
titlecomplete: The Crane Wife (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Library)
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Story Line Press