Seasons of Sacred Lust

by Kazuko Shiraishi

Book Overview

Seasons of Sacred Lust 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. Her earliest work, associated with the avant-garde magazine Vou, shows her talent for vivid, bizarre, almost surrealistic imagery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811206785
• ISBN13: 9780811206785
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"