Book record
Sonic Peace
Kiriu Minashita
Translated from Japanese by Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow
Sonic Peace, translated from the Japanese by Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow, brings Kiriu Minashita's Japanese-language work into English through HewesHeiser. Published in 2017, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Minashita’s title joins sound and calm, suggesting poems that listen for how noise, rhythm, and aftermath might be held without domination. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Japan. It changes the reader's sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- HewesHeiser
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781944700409