Book record
Is It Poetry?
Toshiko Hirata
Translated from Japanese by Eric E. Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
Is It Poetry? by Toshiko Hirata, translated from Japanese by Eric E. Hyett, Spencer Thurlow and published by Deep Vellum, is a book rooted in Japan. Hirata’s Is It Poetry?, translated by Eric E. Hyett and Spencer Thurlow, asks the question many readers secretly bring to experimental work. The title is playful, but also serious: what makes a poem a poem, and who gets to decide? As contemporary Japanese poetry from Deep Vellum, the book likely plays with voice, performance, gender, and everyday absurdity. I would read it with loosened expectations, letting the question remain open long enough to become part of the pleasure.
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan