Names and Rivers
Published on 20. September 2022
112 pages
978-1-61932-261-5 (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.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Contents
- A Note on This Translation
- Introduction
- Toward Temple Risshaku
- The Dry Season
- Prayer for Rituals
- Wandering Beyond
- The Title Lost
- The Direction North
- Nonferrous
- Ritual Utensils
- Author's Note to "Ritual Utensils"
- Kozukata (The Road Never to be Taken)
- Author's Note to "Kozukata (The Road ."
- Author's Note to Some Thoughts on Kozukata
- The Portrayal of White
- A Thousand Vowels
- The Inertia of Anxiety
- Rejected by Water
- Wandering Birds
- Afterword
- Alchemy of Summer
- A Tiny Little Equation
- The Rejected Light
- Coda: Grace Before Song
- Notes
- About the Author
- About the Translators
- Books by Shuri Kido
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
