Description
Winner of the 2006 Takami Jun Prize. Now widely taught as a feminist classic, “Killing Kanoko” is a defiantly autobiographical exploration of sexuality, community, and postpartum depression, featuring some of Ito’s most famous poems. Set simultaneously in the California desert and Japan, “Wild Grass on the Riverbank” focuses on migration, nature, and movement. At once grotesque and vertiginous, this later collection interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality and place into a genre-busting narrative of what it is to be a migrant.
