By Bern Mulvey
Cleveland State University Press, Cleveland 2008
Tamura-cho (a small village in Fukui Prefecture) is the setting for The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, poems that touch on identity, assimilation, conflict, death, forgiveness, and redemption. The title refers to the original ideographs (fat and sheep) that make up the modern Japanese character for beauty. This is [...]
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The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants
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