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Ito Hiromi is one of the most important poets of contemporary Japan. She is often credited with revolutionizing postwar Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women's bodies. She later moved to the U.S., and has since focused on migration and the psychological effects of linguistic and cultural alienation. She is the multi-award-winning author of over ten collections of poetry, numerous essay collections and translations and several novellas and novels. Jeffrey Angles is an associate professor of Japanese literature and translation studies at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Writing the Love of Boys (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), translator of Forest of Eyes: Poetry of Tada Chimako (University of California Press, 2010), and co-editor of Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Where-abouts Press, 2006). He has won grants from the PEN Club of America and the National Endowment for the Arts for his translations. He lives in a house with an overgrown garden in Kalamazoo. |
