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<Portrait of grandfather as a cowboy (furigana)

Art: photography from “Swan Song of the Badlas”>

Portrait of grandfather as cowboy

Western Village (ウエスタン村) haikyo, Tochigi, Japan

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Kenji C. Liu (劉謙司) is author of Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize, and Monsters I Have Been, forthcoming from Alice James Books (2019). His poetry is in American Poetry Review, Anomaly, Action Yes!, Split This Rock’s poem of the week series, several anthologies, and two chapbooks, Craters: A Field Guide (2017) and You Left Without Your Shoes (2009). A Kundiman fellow and an alumnus of VONA/Voices, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in Los Angeles.

Note: An alternate, furigana version of "Portrait of grandfather as cowboy" is available to read here.

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Tongue is an online literary project dedicated to challenging borders and expanding our notions of form and translation. We publish poetry, essays, and visual art by way of Dispatches sent to subscribers about twice a month.

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