Sea, Land, Shadow

by Kazuko Shiraishi

Translated from Japanese by Yumiko Tsumura

Sea, Land, Shadow, Kazuko Shiraishi’s fourth collection with New Directions, contains work written 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 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.

Paperback(published Aug, 15 2017)

ISBN
9780811226950
Price US
10.95
Price CN
14.95
Trim Size
6x9
Page Count
64
Portrait of Kazuko Shiraishi

Kazuko Shiraishi

Contemporary experimental Japanese poet