Sea, Land, Shadow (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Synopsis

Sea, Land, Shadow, The Fourth Collection By Kazuko Shiraishi To Be Published By New Directions, Comprises Work Written Over Sixty-years, From 1951 To 2015. Shiraishi, Described By Donald Keene As The Outstanding Poetic Voice Of Her Generation Of Disengagement In Japan, Sees The World In A Grain Of Rice And Finds Poetry In A Mountain-road Traffic Jam. In The Haunting Title Poem, She Visits Iwanuma Not Long After The Disastrous Tsunami Hit In 2011 And Finds No Houses But A Place Where Houses Had Been. This Pamphlet Also Includes A Long, Lyrical Homage To Yukio Mishima, As Well As Playful And Profound Meditations On A Roman Condom, Lizard God, God Of War, And An Ear.-- Yellow Waves Of Rice Continue -- On A Mountain Road In A Traffic Jam -- Mommy's Aquaintance, A 90-year-old Tree -- The Sea Is Barking -- Now, The Sun Is About To Hide In The Mountains -- Crossing Through -- Falling Off The Globe -- Sleeping Bird -- Mischievous God's Birthday -- Sea, Land, Shadow -- The Running Of The Full Moon -- Roman Condom -- The Day I Heard The Song Of The Honey Bee, Whale, And Angel -- Yellow Sand -- To A Rainbow -- Journal, From Rome To A Cave -- A Vernal Planet -- The Bird Who Speaks Chuvash -- Go Through Or Bar The Way -- A Spell Of Dry Weather -- A Person Dies -- A Requiem For The Earth -- Santa Barbara-newly Wed And Nearly Dead -- Ear -- Window Of An Eye -- The Palm Of The Hand -- In September -- March Or An Aperitif -- The Man With Fiery Eyes -- Lizard God Or Urururu -- Vulture -- -- The Pithecanthropus Erectus's Hobby -- October Sentimental Journey -- Bye Bye Blackbird -- Ulysses In Mid-summer -- The Crocodiles -- By The Hudson River -- The Star. Kazuko Shiraishi ; Translated From The Japanese By Yumiko Tsumura. Translated From The Japanese.