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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems

This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems

Beichman, Janine
Ishigaki, Rin

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 4907359411
ISBN13: 9784907359416
Publisher: Isobar Press
Published: Aug 29 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Born in central Tokyo in 1920, Ishigaki Rin was one of the most daring and gifted poets of Japan's postwar cultural renaissance. She knew Japan before the war, during it, and afterwards, saw it move from hubris to disastrous defeat - which included the destruction of her family home during one of the worst firebombings of Tokyo in 1945 - to restoration into the community of nations. Her poetry is witness to this history as seen from her own specific viewpoint, that of a single woman working in a bank as the only support for her six-member family, at first engaged in labor union activities, but later moving to a politically more independent position. Her sharpness of vision and down-to-earth understanding of everyday urban life, and of the politics of family and the workplace, helped to create her reputation as a writer of 'life poetry' and as a poet of resistance, but this combines with a matter-of-fact, unsentimental, and often humorous intimacy with the ordinary creatures and things of the world, whether animal, vegetable or mineral, to shed an almost other-worldly light over some of the poems, even though they speak in tones and about subjects refreshingly earthy and earthly.

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