Like an ink-wash painting, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin captures in its lines and tones the landscape of post-war America, personal history and a hybrid culture. In her second collection, Kathleen Hellen records the "things of beauty" and the "awful things," as Sei Shōnagon described them in The Pillow-Book, evoking the tension between conformity and conflict. Hellen experiments with traditional forms like haiku, haibun and zuihitsu and summons the ghosts of Noh to connect with family and ancestors.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Published: 10/05/2018
ISBN: 9780996907477
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d