Ito Hiromi, Translated by Jeffrey Angles: Killing Kanoko

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Action Books, paperback

Publication Date: December 12, 2009

Publisher Marketing: Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. “I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples.” “KILLING KANOKO is a powerful, long-overdue collection (in fine translation) of poetry from the radical Japanese feminist poet, Hiromi Ito. Her poems reverberate with sexual candor, the exigencies and delights of the paradoxically restless/rooted female body, and the visceral imagery of childbirth leap off the page as performative modal structures–fierce, witty, and vibrant. Hiromi is a true sister of the Beats”–Anne Waldman.

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