One poem by this woman states that "if your throat bleeds with/brittle words" you "must stop everything gently/wait for seven long years" if the title event occurs. Another poem by this woman ends, "we take the edges/of our t
One poem by this woman states that "if your throat bleeds with/brittle words" you "must stop everything gently/wait for seven long years" if the title event occurs. Another poem by this woman ends, "we take the edges/of our transcience/we bury the ashes/of our wording/and sift/the silences". This poet of "If your mirror breaks" and "Offerings" wrote the poetry collections The Splintered Moon and What Do I Remember of the Evacuation? but is probably best known for a novel in which the protagonist recalls being abused by Old Man Gower, and being forced to work on a beet farm with her family and live in a chicken coop. That protagonist receives letters about her family's past from Aunt Emily and her brother eventually joins the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. The title character of that novel repeats, "Everyone someday dies," and refuses to tell Naomi what happened to her mother. For 10 points, name this author of Obasan.
One poem by this woman states that "if your throat bleeds with/brittle words" you "must stop everything gently/wait for seven long years" if the title event occurs.
Joy {Kogawa}