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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits / Hiromi Ito ; translated by Jon L. Pitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Itō, Hiromi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Nightboat Books
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a companion piece to Ito's beloved poem "Wild Grass on the Riverbank". Rather than the vertiginously violent poetics of the latter, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call a phyto-autobiography: a recounting of one's life through the logic of flora. Ito's graciously potent and philosophical prose examines immigration, language, gender, care work, and death, all through her close (indeed, at times obsessive) attention to plant life.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Translator's Preface
- The Plants in My Front Yard
- Eucalyptus Tobacco Party
- The Black Monk Carries a Glossy Parasol
- Grass, Wildflowers
- Living Trees and Dying Trees
- Mount Fujis and Arboreal Giants
- At War with Mold
- Summer Grass
- Why I Killed the Pampas Grass
- Respective Autumns
- Look, Look! It's a Cactus Skeleton!
- The Miraculous Welwitschias of Berlin
- The Amakusa Nishibira Camellia Park
- Baobab Dream
- Eucrypta Came Walking
- Covered in Grass, I Slept
- Steam, Unohana, Minami Aso
- Kudzu-san
- Arexa kawaransis
- A Declaration of Religious Faith: To All the Ex-Taxodiaceae
- Traveling with Seitaka-awadachisō
- Flora, Fauna, Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Nightboat Books.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781643622200
- 164362220X
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