{"product_id":"the-thorn-puller-9781737625322","title":"The Thorn Puller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHIROMI ITO\u003c\/strong\u003e came to national attention in Japan in the 1980s for her groundbreaking poetry about pregnancy, childbirth, and female sexuality. After relocating to the U.S. in the 1990s, she began to write about the immigrant experience and biculturalism. In recent years, she has focused on the ways that dying and death shape human experience. English translations include \u003cem\u003eKilling Kanoko\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWild Grass on the Riverbank\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJEFFREY ANGLES\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and professor of Japanese at Western Michigan University. He is the first non-native poet writing in Japanese to win the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a highly coveted prize for poetry. His translation of the modernist classic \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e by Shinobu Orikuchi won both the Miyoshi Award and the Scaglione Prize for translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stone Bridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50866668175634,"sku":"9781737625322","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce18d65a-307d-4225-a18c-3bbea2bf1d32.jpg?v=1737693028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-thorn-puller-9781737625322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}