Wild Grass on the Riverbank
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989804844 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 103 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Writing the Love of Boys (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and the award-winning translator of dozens of Japan's most important modern Japanese authors and poets. Hiromi It emerged in the 1980s as the leading voice of Japanese women's poetry with a series of sensational works that depicted women's psychology, sexuality, and motherhood in fresh and dramatic new ways. A selection of her ear
In the late 1990s, she relocated to southern California, and since then has written a number of important, award-winning books about migrancy, relocation, identity, linguistic alienation, aging, and death. Her collection Kawara Arekusa won the 2006 Takami Jun Prize, which is awarded each year to an outstanding, innovative book of poetry, and is now published in English translation (WILD GRASS ON THE RIVERBANK, 2015), by Action Books. He is the author of Writing the Love of Boys (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and the award-winning translator of dozens of Japan's most important modern Japanese authors and poets. Both collections are translated by Jeffrey Angles.Jeffrey Angles lives in Kalamazoo, where he is an
Asian & Asian American Studies. At once grotesque and vertiginous, It interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality, and place into a genre-busting narrative of what it is to be a migrant.. Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi It's WILD GRASS ON THE RIVERBANK will plunge you into dreamlike landscapes of volatile proliferation: shape-shifting mothers, living father-corpses, and pervasively odd vegetation