Between the Floating Mist by Ryokan and translated by Dennis Maloney, Hide Oshiro

This is poetry from Japan.

Between the Floating Mist by Ryokan translated by Dennis Maloney, Hide Oshiro is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210054E12.

Between the Floating Mist, translated from the Japanese by Dennis Maloney, Hide Oshiro, brings Ryokan’s Japanese-language work into English through White Pine Press. Published in 2009, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Ryokan’s title brings the reader into the soft discipline of impermanence, where mist, solitude, wandering, and spiritual practice meet. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from Japan changes the room around English.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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