The Glass Clouding Juliet Jacques

The Glass Clouding Juliet JacquesThe Glass Clouding blends translation and poetry in an extended meditation on and through Masaoka Shikis late life writing. Shiki, a Japanese poet and critic who died in 1902 of tuberculosis at the age of 35, revitalized the form of haiku. His work, a study in looking, documents his experience of confinement with a spare immediacy and a rich sense of the visible outside world he could not directly access. The Glass Clouding wrestles with the limits of

and the discovery of intimate correspondence with another woman

you can’t possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit up straight and pay attention

through and into other 'languages' or media

to self-reflections on the poet as remembrancer

she reminds us the self is plural

white nationalism in Trinidad’s big neighbour to the north

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post-colonial Caribbean state of Aritya (Guyana in disguise)

a remote village on Dominica’s north coast

'If someone knocks on your door

all with a connection to the Reading area

It has survived