I wait for the moon by Momoko Kuroda and translated by Abigail Friedman

This is poetry from Japan.

I wait for the moon by Momoko Kuroda translated by Abigail Friedman is published by Stone Bridge Press. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781611720167E12.

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.

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