NIPPON is, on its attractive surface, the story of a man who goes
to Japan from California to marry his beloved. While he is there,
the two climb Fuji, wander about, watch a baseball game. And get
married. Intricacies abound. The marriage will be between cultures,
so the tone and word choice of the poem moves effortlessly between
influences as supple and as primal as William Carlos Williams and
Mei Sheng. There is another mix: a curious one of restiveness and
calm providing a paradox: a yearning for what is there. Hayes draws
the characters by what they do or what they choose to see, there is
little descriptive prose. Parallelism returns to our poetry, Fuji
seamlessly serves as a background and as a metaphor for the stages
of courtship, and baseball, loved in both places, casts a benign
shadow of Swallows and Giants, like a story children love to hear.
The story is rounded with airplanes, those modern equivalents of
flaming chariots, and the reader is left with images that are
profoundly everyday while smoothly reflecting images that resonate
like gongs in an unfamiliar temple. (Description written by
Professor Daniel J. Langton.)
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