House by Itself by Noriko Kawasaki Martinez and translated by John Brandi

This is poetry from Japan.

House by Itself by Noriko Kawasaki Martinez translated by John Brandi is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78194568009E12.

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.

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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