Woman in a Blue Robe - Softcover

Danno, Yoko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4907359160 ISBN 13: 9784907359164

Publisher: Isobar Press, 2016

Synopsis

The poems in Woman in a Blue Robe consist of work written by Yoko Danno in the period 2002–2016. They range from short epigrammatic poems – sharply observed yet flavored with surrealism – to long pieces that mingle prose and poetry, dream and autobiography, fact and fiction, elegy and celebration, together with Buddhist insight and reference to Japanese historical figures and traditional culture. Among these longer pieces are evocative accounts of the great Kobe earthquake of 1995 and of the reconstruction of the author’s house in its aftermath.

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About the Author

Yoko Danno writes poetry solely in English. She has published several collections, most recently trilogy & Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe (2010) and Aquamarine (2014), as well as books co-authored with James C. Hopkins and Bernard Stolz. The second edition of her translation, Songs and Stories of the Kojiki, a collection of creation myths, songs and historical narratives compiled in eighth-century Japan, appeared in 2014. She lives in Kobe, where she runs the Ikuta Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Isobar Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4907359160
• ISBN 13: 9784907359164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66