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Alison solis mama11/14/2023 She asked about my daughter, and we caught up a little as she processed my transaction. I told her, “You lightened your hair! It used to be dark.” That’s right, she said. As it happens, her name slipped my mind for the moment. Yes, that’s right! I said, looking at her finally, and I asked about her younger brother and sister. I didn’t look directly at the bank teller till she asked me if I was really the father of her best friend in second grade. I slid the check under the inch and a half thick bullet-proof acrylic. He’s collaborating on a novel (forthcoming from City Lights in 2019), The East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, a History, with artist Arturo Romo. Winner of two American Book Awards, his most recent books are the chapbook, Praying Mantis (Business Bear Press, 2017) and the hybrid City of the Future (Kaya Press, 2018). His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and BAX: Best American Experimental Writing. * This poem is copyrighted by José Watanabe (1994) and English translation was originally published on The Asian American Literary Review 8.1 (2017). Others were for the rite of healing, of exposed and sentient entrails Soon five cuyes will be served at the table. You would stretch the lamp into the darkness Your eyes open quickly as if forewarned, reviving in them The light bulb coincides with your sleeping head Where it may congeal into a brilliant sign Slaughtered, in sacrifice, at your aged queen’s feet.īlood always celebrates your birthday, receive it detention camps during World War II. The poem “Mama Turns 75” is excerpted from the maestro's third book of poems, Historia natural ( Natural History, 1994). Along with his numerous articles, children’s books and screenplays, the author's publications feature seven original volumes of poetry. Watanabe is also a main contributor to La memoria del ojo: cien años de presencia japonesa en el Perú ( Memory of the Eye: A Hundred Years of Japanese Presence in Peru, 1999), a riveting “photographic history” that narrates scenes of everyday life, loss, and northward “relocation” of approximately 1800 Japanese Peruvians to U.S. The late José Watanabe (1946-2007) is one of Peru’s most beloved contemporary poets.
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