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Today's poem Open a raden jewelry box. I can find Sarah Howe’s collection Loop of Jade as encyclopedia of poems. - Random Memos - (The paragraph (2) might be a hodgepodge. Sorry.) (1) My favorite is the poem of the book title. Jade is a typical metaphor representing China. I imagine that jade is the color of the Kurobe River, Japan. The scenes in the poem are not set to Japan. Nevertheless, I think that my idea using the Kurobe River is valid, for the poem seems to be acts played in the jade river. In the freshwater, the contour of everything is trembling, often blurred, and a field of view is clear at some points of the river and opaque at others. There, visions in the poem can rise from the darkness of slow-moving whirlpools. (2) The transition of forms corresponds to Howe’s recollection or conversation with her mother. This is breathtaking. Regarding three generations (Howe, her mother, and grandmother), fragments or strands of flashbacks are precisely knitted. Ae
Today's poem I have submitted this book review to some UK magazines. However, I live in Tokyo, it's hard to access a proper place for submission in consideration of various standards or rules. And I think it can take a longer time to realize the publication of the book review. So I upload it on my blog. J enny, huge congraturations!  Poetry Review - 回家 LETTERS HOME : Hideko Sueoka finds layered lyricism and lyric glitter,  Jennifer Wong’s writing is  more refined, more richened .       回家 LETTERS HOME      Jennifer Wong      Nine Arches Press      ISBN 9781911027874      90pp          £9.99       https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/letters-home.html After her collection  Goldfish ,  回家 LETTERS HOME  by Jennifer Wong is crafted with various stitch patterns of forms and contents with iambic cadence, and her techniques and themes are more developed, richened. Therefore, her poems are well-wrought and textured. The collection fascina