Names and Rivers
Description
A bilingual Japanese-English presentation of Shuri Kido'spoetry, co-translated by Pulitzer prize-winner Forrest GanderShuri Kido, known as the "far north poet," is one of the
most influential contemporary poets in Japan. Names and Rivers brings the poems
of Shuri Kido to readers in North America for the first time, thanks to star
translator team Tomoyuki Endo and Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. Drawing
influence from Japanese culture and geography, Buddhist teachings, and
modernist poets, Kido presents a mesmerizing view of the world and our human
position in it. This is a world "that isn't ours"--where the trees are sirens
while the people are silent, where snow lingers while language crumbles. Names
and Rivers is made of crossings, questionings, and mysteries as unanswered and
open as the sky. Bilingual Japanese-English production.
Product Details
Price
$17.00
$15.81
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date
September 20, 2022
Pages
128
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781556596612
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About the Author
Shuri Kido, known as the "far north poet," is one of the most important poets in Japan. He has translated many English poems into Japanese and has introduced works by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot to Japan. Kido has been a critic and columnist for various magazines and newspapers and has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture.
Tomoyuki Endo is an assistant professor at Wako University in Tokyo. He has collaborated with Forrest Gander on the translation of poems from Shiraishi's My Floating Mother, City (New Directions), and was the supervisor of English subtitles for Gozo Yoshimasu's movies Thousands of Islands and The Reality behind What We See.
Forrest Gander is a cross-genre writer and translator and
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the poetry book Be With (New Directions, 2019).
He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Guggenheim Foundation, and PEN America. A former professor at Brown
University, Gander currently lives in California.
