Sea, Land, Shadow

By Kazuko Shiraishi

the people, the boats completely gone with the tsunami / tonight you would not be able to sleep --from Sea, Land, Shadow

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226956
• ISBN13: 9780811226950
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"