Are you an echo? by Misuzu Kaneko and translated by Sally Ito

This is poetry from Japan.

Are you an echo? by Misuzu Kaneko translated by Sally Ito is published by Consortium. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781634059626E12.

Are you an echo?, by Misuzu Kaneko and translated by Sally Ito, is a gentle title with deep resonance. Kaneko’s Japanese children’s poems have become beloved for their clarity, compassion, and animating attention to animals, objects, and the more vulnerable forms of life. The question in the title is simple enough for a child and mysterious enough for anyone: what does it mean to answer, repeat, or carry another voice? Ito’s translation gives English readers a way into Kaneko’s luminous directness. I would read this book when I want to be reminded that simplicity is not the opposite of depth. Some poems kneel down to the world and, by doing so, make it larger. Echo becomes relation, not mere repetition.

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