
Names and Rivers
Shuri Kido(Author)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 3. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-55659-661-2 (ISBN)
Description
A bilingual Japanese-English presentation of Shuri Kido'spoetry, co-translated by Pulitzer prize-winner Forrest Gander
Shuri Kido, known as the “far north poet," is one of themost influential contemporary poets in Japan. Names and Rivers brings the poemsof Shuri Kido to readers in North America for the first time, thanks to startranslator team Tomoyuki Endo and Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. Drawinginfluence from Japanese culture and geography, Buddhist teachings, andmodernist poets, Kido presents a mesmerizing view of the world and our humanposition in it. This is a world “that isn't ours"—where the trees are sirenswhile the people are silent, where snow lingers while language crumbles. Namesand Rivers is made of crossings, questionings, and mysteries as unanswered andopen as the sky. Bilingual Japanese-English production.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-661-2 (9781556596612)
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Shuri Kido, known as the “far north poet," is one of the most important poets in Japan. He has translated many English poems into Japanese and has introduced works by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot to Japan. Kido has been a critic and columnist for various magazines and newspapers and has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture.