Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater The Mignonette foundered in the

The Mignonette foundered in the South Atlantic far from land

such as haiku

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Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and ‘abundant positivity’ that characterise Sonia Sanchez’s astonishing body of work

Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater The Mignonette foundered in theFor 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 transition, a chance meeting with a childhood friend, the timeline of a cicadas lifethese apparently small events punctuate existence