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House by Itself
Noriko Kawasaki Martinez
Translated from Japanese by John Brandi
House by Itself, by Noriko Kawasaki Martinez and translated by John Brandi from Japanese, brings Japanese-language poetry from Japan into English through a Japanese house imagined as solitude, shelter, and an inner architecture of attention. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for house, silence, threshold, and the way a private room can start behaving like a weather system, not as a fixed lesson about Japan. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. House by Itself belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Japanese poetry a quiet domestic entry point where isolation becomes a form of listening.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781945680090