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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”
Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Poetry, Japanese poetry, Kazuko Shiraishi, Kenneth Rexroth, New Directions, Poetry and Jazz
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