Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting”

Midwestern Mice in Silk Kimonos: Yuki Tanaka’s “Chronicle of Drifting”

Copper Canyon Press “[Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights of optimism, is, again, the product of the angle of vision of the flaneur, the stranger in town, the person who has seen it all but decides not to linger on individual premises too long.” It has been far too easy to forget how much one’s perception of the vast English-speaking world, and relative comfo…