Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting”

Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting”
Copper Canyon Press

“[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premis

Timeless reading in a fleeting world.

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