Poems of Hiromi Ito, Toshiko Hirata & Takako Arai
Department
World Languages and Literatures
Document Type
Book
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Description
This collection brings together the work of three of Japan's most creative, innovative, and challenging contemporary poets. During the 1980s, Itō and Hirata quickly emerged as major new poetic voices, breaking taboos and writing about sexual desire, marital strife, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in such direct and powerful ways that they sent shockwaves through the literary establishment. In recent years, Arai has emerged as a leader of the next generation of poets, writing about working-class women and their fates within the world of global capital. All three poets have rejected the stayed, polished language that dominates poetic discourse and instead have favored dramatic voices that are raw, powerful, and frequently quite dark. Socially engaged and poetically aware, these three are poised to become some of the most important poetic voices of the twenty-first century.
ISBN
978-1922181749
Publication Date
2016
Disciplines
Poetry
Citation for published book
Itō Hiromi, Hirata Toshiko, and Arai Takako, Poems of Hiromi Itō, Toshiko Hirata & Takako Arai (Newtown, Australia: Vagabond Press, 2016).
Recommended Citation
Toshiki Hirata, Ito Hiromi; Arari, Takako; and Angles, Jeffrey, "Poems of Hiromi Ito, Toshiko Hirata & Takako Arai" (2016). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 765.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/765