After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit by a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Masao Mitsui
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, World War II, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration, Accidents, India or East Indian people, Hunting or hunters, Asian Americans, Buddhism, Japanese Americans
The Poem
“After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit By a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church” is written from the first-person point of view. It consists of forty lines divided into four stanzas: a six-line introductory stanza, followed by a twenty-two-line stanza and two concluding stanzas of six lines each. The title notes the event and subject that inspired the poem and prepares the reader for the tone and voice of the narrator, who is easily assumed to be the poet, James Mitsui.
The poem begins dramatically in the present tense with the narrator...
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