The Impossibility of Redemption Is Something We Hadn't Figured On

Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, 1990. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Purple octavo, b&w portrait to covers, 61 pages, 22 cm. Extremely gentle wear to spine head and foot, stamp to front free endpaper, faint soiling to front cover and fore-edges, else near fine(-). Paperback. ISBN: 0917658272

Contents: Night movement. Night movement -- Nightfall -- The time of figs -- The watch -- Figs -- Saint George Monastery at night -- At the airport -- Under migrating birds -- Reflexion -- The dragon. The impossibility of redemption. Shinkichi's tale -- At the spa -- Tsunami -- One thousand cranes -- Plumbago -- The shell game -- Mimosas -- Last fall the moths were numberless as leaves -- Gypsies -- Gloucester's axiom -- The impossibility of redemption is something we hadn't figured on.Stranger. Stranger -- Her smile -- Mushrooms -- Hunger -- Ripple effect -- The and language -- Speaking in tongues -- Ikebana: woman with flowers -- Two runners -- The origami.Japanese American poetry -- Women authors.