Killing Kanoko by Hiromi Ito and translated by Jeffrey Angles

This is poetry from Japan.

Killing Kanoko by Hiromi Ito translated by Jeffrey Angles is published by Action Books. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780979975547E12.

Killing Kanoko, by Hiromi Itō and translated by Jeffrey Angles, is a fierce, bodily, transgressive landmark of contemporary Japanese poetry. Itō’s work often tears through motherhood, sexuality, violence, myth, migration, and female speech with an energy that refuses politeness. The title is shocking, and it should be. It tells the reader that this book is not interested in sanitized versions of maternal or feminine life. Angles’s translation brings that force into English with the necessary heat and risk. I would read Killing Kanoko when I want poetry that does not behave. The poems can be grotesque, funny, furious, tender, and mythic all at once. Some books expand the permissible range of a voice. This one kicks the door open.

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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