Echoes: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 2017 now on sale from Lulu for $14 (less during Lulu’s frequent discount offers). (See this Youtube video by Amy Chavez.)
The anthology collects writings by established and new writers associated with Kyoto. The contents range widely from fiction to non-fiction: an extract from a novel, a short story, and a fantasy; articles on child-rearing, ceramics, the tokonoma, and the spirit of rocks; contemporary free verse, poetry with a Taoist flavor, and new translations of Basho. Also included are three winning entries from the Writers in Kyoto Competition, and two longer pieces about that giant of Japanology, Lafcadio Hearn, who continues to cast a shadow more than a hundred years after his death. Rounding out the anthology is an essay by Alex Kerr, leading commentator on present-day Japan, together with photographs by award-winning designer, John Einarsen.
Testimonial…
“Echoes arrived yesterday, and I read through it all in the night. Absolutely splendid! I’m really thrilled to be a part of this volume! It arrived with the first snowfall of the year (the earliest ever here), so the night was doubly magical.”
– US contributor in December, 2017
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CONTENTS
About Writers in Kyoto
Preface (Alex Kerr)
Three Poems (A.J. Dickinson)
On Childraising in Japan: Expanding into Interdependence (Karen Lee Tawarayama)
Dateline: Kyoto – Western Journalism from Japan’s Ancient Capital (Eric Johnston)
Poem: At Koryu-ji (Ken Rodgers)
Lafcadio Hearn and Basil Hall Chamberlain (Joseph Cronin)
Hearn, Myself and Japan (John Dougill)
Haiku Cycle (Mayumi Kawaharada)
Three Old Men of Kyoto (Alex Kerr)
Sprawling City, Sacred Mountain (David Joiner)
Writers in Kyoto Competition: 2017 Winners
1) The Joys of Silence and Bewilderment (Jane Kramer)
2) Palm of the Hand Story (Mark Cody)
3) Yamaguchi-san (Florentyna Leow)
Basho’s Appreciation for Women: 15 Poems of Female Experience (Jeff Robbins)
Tokonoma Lessons (Paul Carty)
Pride of Place – Saké Vessels (Robert Yellin)
Equivocal Ceramics (Allen S. Weiss)
Chieko’s Story: First Love at Daimonji (Isil Bayraktar)
Under the Light (Edward J. Taylor)
Six Poems (Mark Richardson)
Return to Goat Island (Amy Chavez)
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For information about the WiK Competition (300 words about Kyoto), please check the righthand column and click on the relevant link.  |