Drowning in the Floating World
- ISBN-10
- 1950413152
- ISBN-13
- 9781950413157
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-03
- Publisher
- Press 53
- Author
- Meg Eden
Description
Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden immerses us into the Japanese natural disaster known as 3/11: the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. This poetry collection is also a cultural education, sure to encourage further reading and research.
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