Elsewhere: Poems

In Elsewhere, Kyoko Uchida unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and later passages across oceans and continents, seasons and languagesspoken or otherwisemapping the geographies of longing, loss, grief, and conflict. These poems are preoccupied with itineraries and distance, while at the same time negotiating space at the intersection of shared fragilities and efforts to communicate. Imbued with an outsiders need for precise definitions, they attempt to pare down to the essential core each place, each yearning and absence. See more