Is it poetry? / Toshiko Hirata ; translated from the Japanese by Eric E. Hyett & Spencer Thurlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Hyett, Eric E., translator.

Thurlow, Spencer, translator.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Hirata, Toshiko, 1955---Translations into English.

Hirata, Toshiko.

Hirata, Toshiko, 1955-.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Translations

Poetry.

Physical Description:

119 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Phoneme Media, aqn imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024.

Language Note:

Parallel text in Japanese and English translation .

Summary:

"A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. American readers' awareness of contemporary Japan, through literature and poetry, has increased in recent decades, but many are still left with little means of understanding the everyday cultural phenomena that makes Japanese culture what it is. Hirata uses her poems to genuinely investigate aspects of Japanese culture in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand, and she has an extraordinary way of breaking down a normal event, like seeing an old man riding a bicycle in a park, into a journey that elucidates something profound. Her poems gain prosody while keeping a core narrative aspect which is colored with her own dark and warm artistic lens. Every poem in Is It Poetry? helps the reader understand and think about what is to be cherished, feared, loved, and what is not"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Contains:

Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- Shinanoka.

Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- Shinanoka. English.

Other Format:

Online version: Hirata, Toshiko. Is it poetry?

ISBN:

9781646052738

1646052730

OCLC:

1398509719

Publisher Number:

99995852094