Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Article details.
Mainichi Newspapwers July 6, 2008
| Although TANKA has not gained as much popularity as HAIKU overseas yet,more and more TANKA poems are translated, and the number of the poets who compose English TANKA is definitely increasing. Mariko Kitakubo's new collection, "Cicada Forest", has been published recently. |
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Translation into English was done by Ms. Amelia Fielden, a superb translator of Japanese literature, awarded Donald Keen Prize.
Mr. Michael McClintock, president of the Tanka Society of America,praise Mariko's work very highly in the preface he wrote to "Cicada Forest."
September this year, Mariko performs reading in the U.S.A., and in 2009, in some other countries including Canada.
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