Poetry. THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS is a figure in Japanese folklore--a young girl whose arms are lopped off by her father, and is left to die in the mountains. The father, at the behest of his evil wife--the girl's stepmother--lures the girl into the mountains at the promise of attending a neighboring festival. This is only the beginning of the tale. The poems of Brandon Shimoda's THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS are birthed of the rainy shut-in pause between steps forward and back in a season of great floods. In successive and interlocked ...
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Poetry. THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS is a figure in Japanese folklore--a young girl whose arms are lopped off by her father, and is left to die in the mountains. The father, at the behest of his evil wife--the girl's stepmother--lures the girl into the mountains at the promise of attending a neighboring festival. This is only the beginning of the tale. The poems of Brandon Shimoda's THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS are birthed of the rainy shut-in pause between steps forward and back in a season of great floods. In successive and interlocked sequences, these poems grapple with a seemingly unbridgeable confusion--related to love, the impossibility of life outside of love, and the unbearableness of life within it--as a way to give shape to the dark weather that permeates our lives, so as not to drown at its coming.
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