"Brenda Iijima's DAILY LIFE IN CHINA teleports transhistorical personae together in a polyphonic masquerade. Free verse and one-liners shuffle together in a dreamy dialogue. Or as one character puts it, 'Meanings multiply when I cling to hope's slippery surface.' Very strange bedfellows are made in a process Iijima describes as using 'kaleidoscopic time as a tool of feminist revision inside history's contingencies.' Through this exquisite threading,...