Title: Foreign Wife Elegy
Description: This debut collection bears witness to the compassion of nurses, the hardships of injury and illness, and the solitude brought on by marrying outside one’s culture. In these quiet and deceptively simple poems, Taniguchi’s words become a haven for human frailties and peaceful reflection.
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, Asian American authors, Japanese American authors, Women authors, American women authors, Asian American women authors, Japanese American women authors, History, Japanese American women, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Japan, poetry
Places: Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Time periods: Bombardment, 1945