Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater Few poets in history have

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Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling Ann Pasternak Slater Few poets in history haveFor 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