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Done Being Nurtured by Natsumi Aoyagi, translated by Corey Wakeling NPF19 Helen Calcutt’s brother Matthew tookFor Japanese poet Natsumi Aoyagi, language promises a more lucid, living documentation of experience. Done Being Nurtured, her debut appearance in English translation, explores the birth of insight in childhood and its resonance in adulthood through evanescent encounters with difference and nonhuman life. A butterflys death, a chance meeting with a childhood friend, the timeline of a cicadas lifethese apparently small events punctuate existence with