Dec 25, 2009

After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit by a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church | After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit by a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church

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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After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit by a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church | After a Stranger Calls to Tell Me My Mother’s Been Hit by a Car in Front of the Buddhist Church

At a glance:

The Poem

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