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Is It Poetry?

Is It Poetry? - Paperback

by Toshiko Hirata
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Availability:In StockContributor:Toshiko Hirata, Eric E. Hyett (Translator), Spencer Thurlow (Translator)Publish date:2024-01-23Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Phoneme MediaISBN-13:9781646052738ISBN-10:1646052730UPC:9781646052738Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:JapaneseSize:7.80 x 4.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCCWDTM3Y

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Phoneme MediaISBN-13:9781646052738ISBN-10:1646052730UPC:9781646052738Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Asian, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:JapaneseSize:7.80 x 4.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCCWDTM3Y

Hirata Toshiko is one of Japan's best-known contemporary poets, as well as a renowned playwright and author of seventeen novels. She is associated with the 'women's boom' in contemporary Japanese literature. Her collection, Shinanoka (Tokyo, Shichōsha, 2004), or, Is It Poetry? earned Hirata the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize for poetry.

Eric E. Hyett and Spencer Thurlow are a poetry translation team from Massachusetts. Their first translated book, Sonic Peace by contemporary female Japanese poet Kiriu Minashita (Phoneme Media, 2018), was shortlisted for the 2018 National Translation Award and the 2018 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Their translations and essays have appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, World Literature Today, Modern Poetry in Translation, Pendemics, Transference, The Cincinnati Review.


Publisher: Phoneme Media

Contributor(s)

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

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Toshiko Hirata

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