Kazuko Shiraishi
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Kazuko Shiraishi | |
---|---|
Born | 1931 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation(s) | poet and translator |
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ, Shiraishi Kazuko, born 1931) is a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono's "VVOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951. She has also read her poetry at jazz performances.[1] She has appeared at readings and literary festivals all over the world.[2]
Kenneth Rexroth called her "the Allen Ginsberg of Japan," and edited a volume of her poetry in English for New Directions Press. [3]
Translations available in English
Hiroaki Sato has translated Shiraishi's poetry for BOMB Magazine, [4] and several of her anthologies have appeared in English:
- Seasons of Sacred Lust. Translated by Ikuko Atsumi, John Solt, Carol Tinker, Yasuyo Morita, and Kenneth Rexroth. Edited by Kenneth Rexroth. New Directions Press, 1975.
- Let Those Who Appear. Translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura. New Directions Press, 2002.
- My Floating Mother, City. Translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura. New Directions Press, 2009.
- Sea, Land, Shadow. Translated by Yumiko Tsumura. New Directions Press, 2017.
References
- ^ "Kazuko Shiraishi — internationales literaturfestival berlin". Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ "Kazuko Shiraishi (poet)". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ^ "Author Page - Kazuko Shiraishi". 8 September 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ^ "Four Poems by Kazuko Shiraishi". Retrieved 28 January 2016.
Further reading
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from November 2019
- Articles with hCards
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with LNB identifiers
- Articles with NDL identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1931 births
- Living people
- Writers from Vancouver
- 21st-century Japanese poets
- 20th-century Japanese translators
- Japanese women poets
- Date of birth missing (living people)
- International Writing Program alumni
- All stub articles
- Japanese writer stubs