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Stories I Hear
This poem erases Lafcadio Hearn’s “Insect Studies” from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, 1904. Hearn was an American who became a naturalized Japanese citizen, and his essays were many Westerners’ first literary encounter with Japan.