Hiromi Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Action Books (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-0-9898048-4-4
Acclaimed Japanese poet Ito follows up her English-language debut, Killing Kanoko, with a narrative poem in which a horrifying wasteland of personified plants and rotting corpses provides the landscape. In the poem, which is told from the...
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Hiromi Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Stone Bridge, $18.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-73762-530-8
Poet Ito makes her English-language fiction debut (after the poetry collection Wild Grass on the Riverbank) with a lyrical and discursive autofictional account of a woman caught between two cultures and her family’s demands for caretaking. Poet...
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Hiromi Ito, trans. from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt. Nightboat, $19.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-1-64362-192-0
These ruminative essays by poet Ito (The Thorn Puller) explore assimilation, mortality, and identity through the lens of botany. In “The Plants in My Front Yard,” Ito recounts struggling to adjust to life in the U.S. after immigrating to Southern...
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