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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Wake Me With a Shout

Wake Me With a Shout

Summerhawk, Barbara
Mignon, Taylor

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 195770408X
ISBN13: 9781957704081
Publisher: Tokyo Poetry Journal
Published: Mar 3 2024
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Former lawyer-defender of native North American and women's rights-Barbara's got major clitzpah. With forty-five years of life in Japan under her belt, she has distinguished herself in many areas: a 7th dan martial artist with a slightly aggravating tendency to preen; Aikido shihan; paragliding pilot; founder of groups such as the Engaged Pedagogy Association, Gender Awareness in Language Education; creator of journals like Tokyo Poetry Journal; cowriter of sexual harassment policies at universities in Japan; poet, translator, calligrapher, and retired professor; and student of the Okinawan 3-stringed instrument sanshin. To say that she is a one-person shaker and mover, of plural renaissances, is not an exaggeration. She is not one of those self-aggrandizing ones or career-poet types. She is uninterested in appearing hip. She is modest-but once she graces the stage, there is this figure so charismatic and undeniable. A member of the LGBTQ movement and a pioneer between that movement and literature in Japan, you might get the impression that Barbara would be somewhat pedantic / didactic, but remarkably, her body of poetry is highly accessible, engaging, and dare I write, often entertaining. - Taylor Mignon

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