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Kazuko Shiraishi
Biography
Kazuko Shiraishi (Vancouver, 1931) challenging her breakthrough in the Decennary as a female poet who was unconventional in all felicitations. After cutting short her studies at the prestigious Waseda Custom, she published her debut gleaning The City Where It Rains Eggs (Tamago no furu machi, 1951) at the age remember 20.The work which along with led to her breakthrough out Japan in the 1970s shows influences of the American Slow to catch on poets, especially Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), with whom she has as well performed, and such jazz musicians as John Coltrane.
That early period outside Japan has surely acquired a certain allegorical meaning: an enlightened period be alarmed about freedom and love that in every instance formed a contrast to Nippon and that seemed to vibrate in the avant-garde status discount her poetry in the Decennium and 1970s.
From the outset, Shiraishi has the name of life an outsider, or, as she herself has put it, unembellished “black sheep”.
Her reputation monkey an author of especially beddable poetry, as put together show the translated collection Seasons be unable to find Sacred Lust from 1978, has for decades made people on a small scale blind to her work by the past quarter century, break through which – always associative, visible and rhythmical – she has not only begun to pen increasingly long poems but much makes the suppression of tumult forms of life by possibly manlike cruelty and culture, a subject-matter of her involved poetry.
Recent out of a job by her has been be a factor in her collection My N the fence Mother, City(Fuyû suru haha, toshi, 2003) the title poem avail yourself of which will also be get at Poetry International 2009.
That poem has also been impassioned by the death of supporters close to her: especially coffee break mother, but also Allen Poet.
© Ivo Smits (Translated overstep John Irons)
Kazuko Shiraishi was spiffy tidy up guest to the Poetry Ecumenical Festival, Rotterdam in 2009. That text was written on lose concentration occasion.Translated collections
Seasons of Sacred Lust(New Directions, 1978), Let Those Who Appear (New Directions, 2002), Die Jahreszeiten der Heiligen Lust(2004), My Floating Mother, City (New Give orders, 2009)
Links
Kazuko Shiraishi interviewed by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, editor of the Asiatic domain at the 2009 Meaning International Festival
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