Guided by the character of the Woman Warrior witty, swift, and ruthless in her wonder readers of Brynn Saito's second collection of poetry travel the terrain of personal and historical memory: narrative poems about family, farming towns, and the bravery of girlhood are interspersed with lyric poetry written from the voice of a stone found in a Japanese American internment camp during the wartime incarceration. What histories can be summoned with poetry? What are the forces shaping an American life in the 21st century? Car accidents, patriarchy, and television fall under this poet's gaze,...
Guided by the character of the Woman Warrior witty, swift, and ruthless in her wonder readers of Brynn Saito's second collection of poetry travel the ...