{"product_id":"is-it-poetry-9781646052738","title":"Is It Poetry?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican readers' awareness of contemporary Japan, through literature and poetry, has increased in recent decades, but many are still left with little means of understanding the everyday cultural phenomena that makes Japanese culture what it is. Hirata uses her poems to genuinely investigate aspects of Japanese culture in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand, and she has an extraordinary way of breaking down a normal event, like seeing an old man riding a bicycle in a park, into a journey that elucidates something profound. Her poems gain prosody while keeping a core narrative aspect which is colored with her own dark and warm artistic lens. Every poem in \u003ci\u003eIs It Poetry?\u003c\/i\u003e helps the reader understand and think about what is to be cherished, feared, loved, and what is not. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Phoneme Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"Toshiko Hirata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397711593653,"sku":"9781646052738","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aabf1365-9307-4ed9-9ed1-2b3cad37b076.jpg?v=1702393070","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/is-it-poetry-9781646052738","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}