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Abigail Chabitnoy

Abigail Chabitnoy is a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. She grew up in Pennslyvania. Her first book, How to Dress a Fish, (2019) won the Colorado Book Award in Poetry and was

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by Abigail Chabitnoy

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My father gave me a book

so I wouldn’t die.

He knows more / he can tell

in a nuclear family /

survival is silent

and casts pale shadows.

It’s not that I haven’t learned
to hold my tongue—
         It’s just

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Whose 1866 book Hyak nin is'shiu, or,Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes , was a literary model for the Imagists?

Answer

Frederick Victor Dickins is responsible for the first English translation of the Hyakunin isshu , which is also known as 100 Poems by 100 Poets .

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