Killing Kanoko; Wild Grass on the Riverbank

Killing Kanoko; Wild Grass on the Riverbank

Department

World Languages and Literatures

Document Type

Book

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Description

A landmark dual collection by Ito Hiromi, one of the most important contemporary Japanese poets, in a “generous and beautifully rendered” translation by Jeffrey Angles.

Now widely taught as a feminist classic, Killing Kanoko is a defiantly autobiographical exploration of sexuality, community, and postpartum depression, featuring some of Ito’s most famous poems.

Set simultaneously in the California desert and Japan, Wild Grass on the Riverbank focuses on migration, nature, and movement. At once grotesque and vertiginous, this later collection interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality and place into a genre-busting narrative of what it is to be a migrant.

ISBN

9781911284420

Publication Date

2020

Disciplines

Japanese Studies | Language Interpretation and Translation | Poetry

Comments

Translation by Jeffrey Angles.

Citation for published book

Itō, Hiromi, and Jeffrey Angles. Killing Kanoko ; Wild Grass on the Riverbank / Itō Hiromi ; Translated by Jeffrey Angles. Tilted Axis Press, 2020.

Killing Kanoko; Wild Grass on the Riverbank

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