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The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants

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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