Book record
On Knowing Oneself Too Well
Takuboku Ishikawa
Translated from Japanese by Tamae K. Prindle
On Knowing Oneself Too Well by Takuboku Ishikawa, translated from Japanese by Tamae K. Prindle and published by Syllabic Press, is a selected volume rooted in Japan. Ishikawa’s On Knowing Oneself Too Well, translated by Tamae K. Prindle, is a selected volume whose title carries an almost uncomfortable intimacy. Self-knowledge here does not sound triumphant. It sounds excessive, weary, sharp, maybe comic. Ishikawa’s compact lyric tradition rewards attention to minute turns of feeling, and the selected form lets readers experience that pressure without needing to enter through a massive archive. I would read it for self-scrutiny, loneliness, and the ache of exact observation.
- Publisher
- Syllabic Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan