Is it poetry? /

Is it poetry? /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- author.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Imprint:	Dallas, Texas : Phoneme Media, aqn imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024. ©2024
Description:	119 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English Japanese
Subject:	Hirata, Toshiko, -- 1955- -- Translations into English. Hirata, Toshiko, -- 1955- poetry. Poetry Translations Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13294934

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Other uniform titles:	Hyett, Eric E., Thurlow, Spencer, Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- Shinanoka. Hirata, Toshiko, 1955- Shinanoka. English.
ISBN:	9781646052738 1646052730 9781646052943
Notes:	Parallel text in Japanese and English translation .
Summary:	"A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. American readers' awareness of contemporary Japan, through literature and poetry, has increased in recent decades, but many are still left with little means of understanding the everyday cultural phenomena that makes Japanese culture what it is. Hirata uses her poems to genuinely investigate aspects of Japanese culture in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand, and she has an extraordinary way of breaking down a normal event, like seeing an old man riding a bicycle in a park, into a journey that elucidates something profound. Her poems gain prosody while keeping a core narrative aspect which is colored with her own dark and warm artistic lens. Every poem in Is It Poetry? helps the reader understand and think about what is to be cherished, feared, loved, and what is not"--
Other form:	Online version: Hirata, Toshiko. Is it poetry? First U.S. edition. Dallas : Deep Vellum, 2024 9781646052943

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Summary:	A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Toshiko Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. Produced on the same day each month over the course of two years, every poem in Is It Poetry? (a pun also meaning "the seventh day" in Japanese) is a window into everyday life in Japan. Toshiko Hirata's poems evoke awe and light in the daily minutiae of contemporary life, achieving both prosody and narrative cohesion colored by her dark yet warm artistic sensibility. Beloved and awarded in Japan, Hirata possesses an extraordinary ability to turn an ordinary event like an old man cycling through a park into a journey that elucidates something profound. This translation offers entry into a busy Tokyo brimming with puns, imagery, sounds, and whimsy and asks what is to cherished, feared, loved--and what is not.
Physical Description:	119 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781646052738 1646052730 9781646052943