Ganbatte.

Kortemeier's lyrical debut takes its title from the Japanese word for "do your best" and offers a travelogue of world historical sites. At times, it's hard to distinguish the poet's ready admissions of ignorance from reluctant claims of touristic innocence, which get her out of "having to explain what [she] does not understand." "When I speak, I transform", the poet admits, almost giddy with the poetical possibilities of mistaken idioms and mispronunciations, but ultimately opting against a more ethically oriented poetics of witness as she strives to live up to the goal set by the book's title. [Extracted from the article]