Yuko Taniguchi

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Yuko Taniguchi (born 1975 Yokohama, Japan) is an American poet, and novelist. She came to the United States, at fifteen, and attended high school in Maryland. She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a M.F.A. She teaches at University of Minnesota.)

The Best Poem Of Yuko Taniguchi

Foreign Wife Elegy

My language has its own world
where he doesn't know how to live,
but he should learn my language;
then he can call my mother to say
that I am dead. I drive too fast
and someone else drives too fast
and we crash on the icy road.
The death sweeps me away.
He can tell this to my mother
if he learns my language.
Her large yellow voice travels
and hits his body, but at least she knows
that I am dead, and if I die,
I want him to tell my mother
with his deep voice shaking.

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