This is the first full-length collection of poetry from contemporary Japanese poet Hiromi Ito, an acclaimed and important figure in contemporary Japanese poetry. Translated by Jeffrey Angles.
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KILLING KANOKO is a powerful, long-overdue collection (in fine translation) of poetry from the radical Japanese feminist poet, HiromiIto. Her poems reverberate with sexual candor, the exigencies and delights of the paradoxically restless/rooted female body, and the visceral imagery of childbirth leap off the page as performative modal structures--fierce, witty, and vibrant. Hiromi is a true sister of the Beats. --Anne Waldman.
The appearance of this generous and beautifully rendered translation of Hiromi Ito's poetry is a significant and memorable event for American letters. For Ito is poet of truly international stature, whose work breaks down barriers of language and gender, bringing an unprecedented erotic energy and eruptions of transgressive and domestic excess into areas of deep myth and shamanistic performance. It is a poetry of her world and of our worlds as well, the gift of a supremely intelligent and relentlessly exuberant mind, situated somewhere between bliss and nightmare. That she has now chosen to live among us is a still further cause for celebration. --Jerome Rothenberg
The appearance of this generous and beautifully rendered translation of Hiromi Ito's poetry is a significant and memorable event for American letters. For Ito is poet of truly international stature, whose work breaks down barriers of language and gender, bringing an unprecedented erotic energy and eruptions of transgressive and domestic excess into areas of deep myth and shamanistic performance. It is a poetry of her world and of our worlds as well, the gift of a supremely intelligent and relentlessly exuberant mind, situated somewhere between bliss and nightmare. That she has now chosen to live among us is a still further cause for celebration. --Jerome Rothenberg
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Hiromi Ito, born in 1955 in Tokyo, is one of the most important and dynamic poets of contemporary Japanese literature. After her sensational debut in the late 1970s, she emerged as the foremost voice of the wave of women's poetry that swept Japan in the 1980s. To date, she has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, several novels, and numerous books of essays.
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Jeffrey Angles (1971- ) is an associate professor of Japanese literature and translation studies at Western Michigan University. His lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese literature began when he went to Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern Japan as a fifteen-year old exchange student. Since then, he has lived and taught in Japan numerous times, spending nearly a decade working and studying in various cities, including Saitama City, Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo.
Dr. Angles has written a great deal about contemporary Japanese literature and culture. He is also an accomplished translator of Japanese modernist literature and poetry. His translations of Tada Chimako won the 2009 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature. His translations have won major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN Club of America.
Dr. Angles has written a great deal about contemporary Japanese literature and culture. He is also an accomplished translator of Japanese modernist literature and poetry. His translations of Tada Chimako won the 2009 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature. His translations have won major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN Club of America.
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By Hon-no-mushi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Ito (Perfect Paperback)
I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko
Before she spills my blood... Congratulations on your destruction Congratulations on your destruction These words come from "Killing Kanoko," one of the most controversial and dramatic poems from contemporary Japan. Published in 1985, this poem conveys the Japanese poet Hiromi Ito's exhaustion as a mother and her thoughts of infanticide. She was subsequently pilloried by the popular press for her writing, while feminist writers held her up as a hero, praising her for her bold and unflinching exploration of the dark, emotional underside of motherhood. This collection includes this famous poem, as well as many other poems exploring gender, sexuality, language and the female body. Hiromi Ito, born in 1955, is one of the most important contemporary poets and novelists in Japan. She has has published over a dozen critically acclaimed collections of poetry, several novels and numerous essays. She has also won many important Japanese literary prizes including the Takami Jun Prize, Hagiwara Sakutaro Prize, and the Izumi Shikibu Prize. As the introduction explains, many critics have credited her dramatically direct poetry and sophistication as igniting the wave of "women's poetry" in the 1980s. This book of English translations makes her most dramatic and historically important work available to the English-speaking public.
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