{"product_id":"a-bridge-of-words-views-across-america-and-japan-paperback","title":"A Bridge of Words: Views across America and Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHiroaki Sato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProlific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis anthology of over 60 of Sato's commentaries reflect the writer's wide-ranging erudition and his unsentimental views of both his native Japan and his adopted American homeland. Broadly he looks at the Pacific War and its aftermath and at war (and our love of it) in general, at the quirks and curiosities of the natural world exhibited by birds and other creatures, at friends and mentors who surprised and inspired, and finally at other writers and their works, many of them familiar-the Beats and John Ashbery, for example, and Mishima--but many others whose introduction is welcome. Sato is neither cheerleader nor angry expatriate. Remarkably clear-eyed and engaged with American culture, he is in the business of critical appraisal and translation, of taking words seriously, and of observing how well others write and speak to convey their own truths and ambitions.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHiroaki Sato\u003c\/b\u003e is a prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. American poet Gary Snyder has called Sato\" perhaps the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiroaki Sato has received several translation prizes. Among them are the PEN America prize, with Burton Watson, for \u003ci\u003eFrom the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1981); the Japan-United States Friendship Commission translation prize for \u003ci\u003eBreeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saikō\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and for \u003ci\u003eThe Silver Spoon \u003c\/i\u003e(2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has written columns for a dozen publications, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Mainichi Daily News \u003c\/i\u003e(\"Here and Now--in New York\") from 1984 to 1989 and for \u003ci\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c\/i\u003e (\"The View from New York\") from 2000 to 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766210461984,"sku":"9781611720785","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ef50c92cc93f8ffd8423c58a3bdec97.webp?v=1780287500","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-bridge-of-words-views-across-america-and-japan-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}