{"title":"Kazuko Shiraishi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKazuko Shiraishi\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling journey through vivid imagery and evocative language, blending the personal with the universal. Her work often explores themes of desire, transformation, and the ephemeral beauty of life, inviting readers into a richly textured world of emotion and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the Arts \u0026amp; Culture sphere, her writing captures moments of sacred intensity and poetic wonder, making each book a unique exploration of human experience through a distinct and lyrical voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"seasons-of-sacred-lust-by-kazuko-shiraishi-9780811206785","title":"Seasons of Sacred Lust","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeasons of Sacred Lust\u003c\/em\u003e is Kazuko Shiraishi's challenge to the conventions of Japanese erotic poetry. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Shiraishi was taken to Japan by her family just prior to World War II, and her first poetry (written at age seventeen, published at twenty) emerged from the violence and ugliness of postwar Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer earliest work, associated with the avant-garde magazine \u003cem\u003eVou\u003c\/em\u003e, shows her talent for vivid, bizarre, almost surrealistic imagery. Her later writing, coming out of her deepening involvement in the world of modern jazz and her increasing emphasis on the performance of her poetry, dramatizes a society of estrangement and alienation where music and poetry provide the only values, and sex the only solace, in a disintegrating world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection is translated by a group of Japanese and American poets: Iluko Atsumi, John Solt, Carol Tinker, Yasuyo Morita, and Kenneth Rexroth, who provided an informative, perceptive introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603137511660,"sku":"9780811206785","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811206785-seasons-of-sacred-lust.jpg?v=1778056025"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kazuko-shiraishi.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}