Dancers in Daylight Heather D. Weger Could the Japanese adopt the

Could the Japanese adopt the technology imported from the West while retaining their own culture and values

discrimination

and unwilling to accept the status quo of Jewish communities dominated by the orthodox and the wealthy

in poetic terms

Dancers in Daylight Heather D. Weger Could the Japanese adopt theIn the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of several unsettling poems in this collection. Yet a celebratory strain runs through the book, providing a counter balance: there are poems which celebrate active life, vigorous sexuality, and the subtle steps of the tango. The result is a characteristically