tsunami vs. the fukushima 50. Lee Ann Roripaugh

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Roripaugh, Lee Ann, author.

      Title: Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50 : poems / Lee Ann Roripaugh.

      Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018033636 (print) | LCCN 2018034332 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319494 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571314857 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Classification: LCC PS3568.O717 (ebook) | LCC PS3568.O717 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033636

      Milkweed Editions is committed to ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book production practices with this principle, and to reduce the impact of our operations in the environment. We are a member of the Green Press Initiative, a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the world’s endangered forests and conserve natural resources. tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 was printed on acid-free 30% postconsumer-waste paper by Versa Press.

      This book is a tribute to, in memory and honor of, the victims and survivors of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

      For heroes, both visible and invisible.

      For the ferocity of women. May we all survive and rise.

      For the troubled legacies and unexpected gifts of trauma: the wounds and the superpowers, the hypervigilance, the Mothra-like antennae.

      For Kundiman, beautiful poetry tribe.

      For sisters, chosen family, and friends: Emily Haddad, Cathy Flum, Susan Wolfe, Pen Pearson, Caroline Hong, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Lindy Obach, Bridget Jacobs, Katy Beem, Natanya Ann Pulley, and Darlene Farabee, among many others, with love.

      For all of my many wonderful colleagues and students at the University of South Dakota, the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing, and the Carlow University MFA in Writing, with much gratitude for your inspiration and community.

      For all of the mentors, editors, journals, presses, and reading venues who have supported my work over the years with such kindness and generosity—including a special thanks to Daniel Slager and the entire staff of Milkweed Editions.

      For Nobu, Aiko, Nanami, Kuzuri, Yuki, Tampopo, Genji, Muku, Kenji, Ten-chan, and Kumo.

      And, with love always, for Bruce, my sweet giant, who fills the cracks with gold.

      contents

       ontology of tsunami

       dreaming tsunami

       tsunami goes to canada

       animal portents foretell the rise of tsunami

       radioactive man

       hungry tsunami / tsunami as galactus

       mothra flies again

       shapeshifter tsunami: a scary epithalamium

       miki endo as flint marko (a.k.a. sandman)

       tsunami battles the pink robots / french poststructuralist tsunami

       year of the hitachi snake

       beautiful tsunami

       hulk smash

       tsunami as misguided kwannon

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