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Killing Kanoko
Hiromi Ito
Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles
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.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9780979975547