This is a collected/selected set of poems by the Japanese poet Kazuko Shiraisha. This is the first of its kind, regarding this specific poet, and because of these limitations, this collection is less good than it could be. Two specific issues arise here: one, translated works are already fraught with potential issues, and poetry especially. Two, a selected/collected poetry collection often places ill-suited poems side by side as opposed to one written in a given space of time or related set of themes. So this […]