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Is It Poetry?

By Toshiko Hirata, Eric E. Hyett (Translator), Spencer Thurlow (Translator)
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By Toshiko Hirata, Eric E. Hyett (Translator), Spencer Thurlow (Translator)
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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 aw...

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PoetryAsian PoetryJapanese Poetry