Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four previous collections of poems, including Dandarians. Her first collection, Beyond Heart Mountain, was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner, and her second collection, Year of the Snake, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and her third, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year , was lauded as "masterful" and a "gorgeous canticle." Roripaugh has received an Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Frederick Manfred Award from the Western Literature Association, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets prize. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota, as well as being the state's Poet Laureate. She resides in Vermillion.
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
white tsubame
tsunami grrlsplains allergies
anonymous, as invisible man
tsunami's debris
ama, the woman of the sea
kikuchi octopus
emo tsunami
song of the mutant super boars
hisako's testimony (as x-men's armor)
origin of tsunami
ghosts of the tohoku coast
tsunami in love: kintsukuroi / golden joinery
origami of tsunami: a technical manual and glossary
Acknowledgments
