White Tea Bowl by Mitsu Suzuki and translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer, Kate McCandless

This is poetry from Japan.

White Tea Bowl by Mitsu Suzuki translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer, Kate McCandless is published by Shambhala Publications, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in Japanese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781930485358E12.

White Tea Bowl, translated from the Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Norman Fischer, Kate McCandless, brings Mitsu Suzuki’s Japanese-language work into English through Shambhala Publications, Incorporated. Published in 2014, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Suzuki’s title invites a quiet, Zen-inflected attention to vessel, hand, emptiness, and the humble object made luminous by use. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Japan enters the shelf through music rather than report.

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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