Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park
Ryoko Sekiguchi, Takako Arai

Introduction & translations by Sawako NakayasuAdditional translations by:
Cole Swensen, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Chet Wiener,
Yu Nakai & Malinda Markham

2006 • 100 pp. • $14.00
ISBN: 1-933959-01-0

Review in The Poetry Project Newsletter,
October / November 2007

Laura Sims review in Rain Taxi: Vol. 12 No. 3,
Fall 2007 (#47), Print edition

Midwest Book Review: Small Press Bookwatch review, March 2007

Audio recordings from the Festival of Contemporary
Japanese Women Poets on PENNsound.

"Litmus and Belladonna have produced a gorgeous volume... The collection also reminds me that the most daring poems do not experiment merely for the sake of innovation: they innovate so we may discover."

— The Poetry Project Newsletter, October / November 2007

"Four From Japan showcases a diverse and reflective body of Japanese verse and other writings that is strongly recommended reading, a seminal addition to academic library poetry collections, and a welcome contribution to Japanese Cultural Studies supplemental reading lists."

— Midwest Book Review: Small Press Bookwatch, March 2007

This revolutionary volume represents the first book of its kind, a bilingual anthology dedicated to women working in modern and cross cultural poetry milieus. Published collaboratively by Belladonna Books and Litmus Press in honor of the Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets with support by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The publication of this book is made possible, in part, by support from: