Book record
Wild Grass on the Riverbank
Hiromi Ito
Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles
Wild Grass on the Riverbank, by Hiromi Ito and translated by Jeffrey Angles, is one of those titles that looks gentle until you sit with it a little longer. Wild grass is persistent, overlooked, rooted in the margins. A riverbank is a threshold, a place where erosion and growth happen at the same time. Ito’s Japanese poetry often thrives in exactly that kind of borderland: between myth and body, domestic life and exile, joke and grief. Angles’s translation brings English-language readers into a work that feels less like a scenic nature poem than a living ecology of displacement and survival. I would read this book for its strangeness, its maternal and migratory force, and its refusal to keep the human separate from the more-than-human world.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9780989804844