Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Jericho Brown Her meditative poetry has a

Her meditative poetry has a majestic sweep

always with the steady tug of the personal story beneath’ — Philip Gross

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'Her meticulously crafted poetry was elegiac

Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Jericho Brown Her meditative poetry has aFor Japanese poet Natsumi Aoyagi, language promises a more lucid, living documentation of experience. Done Being Nurtured, her debut appearance in English translation, explores the birth of insight in childhood and its resonance in adulthood through evanescent encounters with difference and nonhuman life. A butterflys death, a chance meeting with a childhood friend, the timeline of a cicadas lifethese apparently small events punctuate existence with