Book record
I wait for the moon
Momoko Kuroda
Translated from Japanese by Abigail Friedman
I wait for the moon, by Momoko Kuroda and translated by Abigail Friedman, brings English readers into the concentrated world of Japanese haiku. Kuroda is a major contemporary haiku poet, and the title has the patience, darkness, and expectancy that the form can hold so well. Waiting for the moon is not passive. It is a discipline of attention, an agreement to let the world arrive in its own time. Friedman’s translation gives English readers a way to experience haiku as lived perception rather than decorative miniature. I would read this book slowly, one poem at a time, without demanding large gestures from small forms. The moon does not need explanation. Sometimes it is enough to wait until the light changes.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stone Bridge Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781611720167