Publisher's Synopsis
In September 1897 Yone Noguchi contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Noguchi was in awe of the established writer and the two had struck up a passionate correspondence. At the same time, Noguchi also had a child with his editor, became engaged to a Washington Post reporter, and upon his return to Japan married Matsu Takeda. According to Amy Sueyoshi, Noguchi's intimacies point to little-known realities of race and sexuality in turn-of-the-century America.
