Sea, Land, Shadow
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Aug 15, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780811226950
Description: "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."--
Notes: Source title: Sea, Land, Shadow (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)