![]() “The expansive, philosophical poems in Names and Rivers: Selected Poems by Shuri Kido consider themes of solitude, time, and ‘naming’ through close attention-fueled by both scientific knowledge and awe-to geological forms and rivers. And that’s why you draw water.’” - Washington Post, “The Five Best Poetry Collections of 2022” ![]() Today courses by like yesterday, / today floats like a cork on tomorrow. ‘Elusive water,’ he writes in ‘Some Thoughts on Kozukata.’ ‘You draw it up, / pour it over yourself. Kido’s poems are frequently spiritual dramas set in a dreamlike landscape of symbols, in which a central, isolated figure encounters mysterious phenomena while making ambiguous progress toward an inscrutable goal. “Shuri Kido is well-known in his native Japan, and his work at last comes to the United States in this lovely bilingual selection, translated by Tomoyuki Endo and Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. Howling out their condition over and over, Immediately, the name began to weather away. When once more the name “nature” was applied The world, for a few hours, is thrown into confusion.īut each loses its name in that same moment.Īnd something was missing, the natural was ![]() ![]() The west wind shifts the typhoon’s course Just keeping on, climbing higher and higher, No matter how long I walked, I stayed in “the middle of the road.” From A Thousand Names-Mille Nomina A Thousand Vowels ![]()
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