{"product_id":"is-it-poetry","title":"Is It Poetry?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Toshiko Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced on the same day each month over the course of two years, every poem in \u003ci\u003eIs It Poetry?\u003c\/i\u003e (a pun also meaning \"the seventh day\" in Japanese) is a window into everyday life in Japan. Toshiko Hirata's poems evoke awe and light in the daily minutiae of contemporary life, achieving both prosody and narrative cohesion colored by her dark yet warm artistic sensibility. Beloved and awarded in Japan, Hirata possesses an extraordinary ability to turn an ordinary event like an old man cycling through a park into a journey that elucidates something profound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis translation offers entry into a busy Tokyo brimming with puns, imagery, sounds, and whimsy and asks what is to cherished, feared, loved—and what is not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54006401794392,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781646052738.jpg?v=1765878329","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/is-it-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}