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The Glass Clouding
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- Book Synopsis
- The Glass Clouding blends translation and poetry in an extended meditation on and through Masaoka Shiki's late-life writing. Shiki, a Japanese poet and critic who died in 1902 of tuberculosis at the age of 35, revitalized the form of haiku. His work, a study in looking, documents his experience of confinement with a spare immediacy and a rich sense of the visible outside world he could not directly access. The Glass Clouding wrestles with the limits of translation, using experimental forms, image, parallel texts, and prose to question what translation can and cannot make visible.
- About The Author
- A Japanese poet and essayist, Masaoka Shiki was born in 1867 in Matsuyama, Japan. He attended University Preparatory College and Tokyo Imperial University, before dropping out from the latter due to illness. He worked for a newspaper and signed up as a war correspondent to China in 1895. Shiki was influential in developing a modern style of Japanese haiku and tanka. He wrote a book on his poetics, Utayomi-ni-atauru-sho (A Book Bestowed on Composers of Poems) and also edited the journal Hototogisu (Cuckoo). He died of tuberculosis in 1902.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781946604156
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse, (15 April 2025)
- Weight
- 160 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 mm
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