Tag: social class
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Two Scavengers in a Truck (with new Catalan translation)
[A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti] At the stoplight waiting for the lightnine a.m. downtown San Franciscoa bright yellow garbage truckwith two garbagemen in red plastic blazersstanding on the back stoopone on each side hanging onand looking down intoan elegant open Mercedeswith an elegant couple in itThe manin a hip three-piece linen suitwith shoulder-length blond hair…
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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
My brief review of Kenji Nakagami’s noir masterpiece [Parts of this review were first published in an edition of Kansai Scene in 2002.] Kenji Nakagami is a writer whose work opens up a side of Japan usually well-hidden from the foreign eye. And for that matter, from many other Japanese people. He once said that…
Brett Hetherington 