| Sea, Land, Shadow Contributor(s): Shiraishi, Kazuko (Author), Tsumura, Yumiko (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811226956 ISBN-13: 9780811226950 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - Japanese - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (0.25 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow Sea, Land, Shadow, the fourth collection by Kazuko Shiraishi to be published by New Directions, comprises work written over sixty-years, from 1951 to 2015. Shiraishi, described by Donald Keene as "the outstanding poetic voice of her generation of disengagement in Japan," sees the world in a grain of rice and finds poetry in a mountain-road traffic jam. In the haunting title poem, she visits Iwanuma not long after the disastrous tsunami hit in 2011 and finds "no houses but a place where houses had been." This pamphlet also includes a long, lyrical homage to Yukio Mishima, as well as playful and profound meditations on a Roman condom, lizard god, god of war, and an ear. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shiraishi, Kazuko: - Kazuko Shiraishi has received the Purple Ribbon Medal from the Emperor of Japan, the prestigious Yomiuri Literary Prize (twice), for her thirty books of poetry.Tsumura, Yumiko: - Yumiko Tsumura is a translator for New Directions. |