{"product_id":"chronicle-of-drifting","title":"Chronicle of Drifting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**2025 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Finalist**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Drifting\u003c\/i\u003e enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuki Tanaka's stunning debut, \u003cem\u003eChronicle of Drifting\u003c\/em\u003e, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka's restless imagination roams among places and personae--a village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flâneur in Tokyo--searching for a permanent self and a sense of community. In the feverish world of these poems, inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku, as well as by timeless surrealism, one meets a light-lashed horse, an imaginary chauffeur, an out-of-business psychic, a girl who skewers a fish with a flower stalk. In poems ranging from lyric to prose, Tanaka creates a poignant dreamlike realm where the inner and outer worlds, the self and others, merge--like the train passenger who, looking out the window and seeing the sky through his reflection, feels \"empty, a blue outline.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yuki Tanaka","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816579461162,"sku":"9781556597053","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/chronicle-of-drifting-1506768.jpg?v=1789040947","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/chronicle-of-drifting","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}