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Wherever you lay your head : poems

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Description: x, 83 pages; 23 cm
Summary: Jane Miller's seventh collection of poems is in part a literary homage to Hiroshige, Japan's master print artist who immortalized scenes along the Tokaido, the "Eastern Sea Road." Like Hiroshige's prints, Miller's poems are a window through which we view the joyous details of the difficult lives of innkeepers, cooks, porters, wrestlers, and men and women of the pleasure quarter. She freely draws from Hiroshige's world to illuminate the cultural and moral grounding of the nuclear age.
Contents: The Flying Fish and Lily of May -- Probability of an Event -- Background Paper -- New Year's Stations -- Firewatcher -- Site Y -- The Grand Waterfall Plunges Unbending into the Pool Below -- Rising Smoke -- In Such a Way That Nothing Could Go Wrong -- School -- "Dave's Dream" (B-29 Bomber) -- "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" -- Blast Site -- Seed Bed -- Green Valley -- Views of Edo -- Speed Queens -- Space Trash -- "Til the End of Time" -- Gnome Site -- The Sea Is Light in a Passing Shower -- The Voiceless Beagles of Davis -- The Sushi Eaters -- Yellow Cake -- Summer Solstice Stations -- From Time to Time and from Place to Place -- Inspection of the Waterways -- Two Shops Dealing in Tie-Dyed Fabrics.
ISBN: 1556591284 (alk. paper)
LCCN: 99006032
OCLC: ocm40660092
Owning Institutions: Columbia University Libraries