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Foreign Wife Elegy : Poems by Yuko Taniguchi is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This debut collection bears witness to the compassion of nurses, the hardships of injury and illness, and the solitude brought on by marrying outside ones culture. In these quiet and deceptively simple poems, Taniguchis words become a haven for human frailties and peaceful reflection. The child of a Hiroshima survivor, Yuko Taniguchi was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1975. At the age of fifteen, she came to the United States alone and attended high school in Maryland. She studied at the College of St. Benedict/ St. Johns University and the University of Minnesota, where she received many awards for her poetry. Currently, she teaches -English at Rochester -Community and Technical College and lives with her husband in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Author

Yuko Taniguchi

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566891486

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.47 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14