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Hiromi Yoshida's second poetry chapbook, Epicanthus, 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.
About the Author
Yoshida, Hiromi: - 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, & 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.
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