I’ve been working on a novel about Japanese poet Yosano Akiko. Here’s an essay by Akiko scholar Janine Beichman on the poet’s writings about the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–21 (h/t ⁦Suzanne Kamata⁩) nippon.com/en/japan-topic…

Review—Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku by Minoru Osawa (transl. Janine Beichman) reviewed by Cody Poulton booksonasia.net/2021/07/26/rev…

Happy to say This Overflowing Light, my translations of poems by the female poet Ishigaki Rin, one of the major Japanese poets of the 20th century, and a truly delightful, serious, passionate, funny, astute magician of words, poet, has been published isobarpress.com/titles/this-ov…

We're interested in publishing reviews of Ishigaki Rin's 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (Isobar Press, 2022), translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. If you're interested, please email [email protected] isobarpress.com/titles/this-ov… 。。。。。

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Litter: Review - “This Overflowing Light” by Ishigaki Rin littermagazine.com/2022/11/review…

The Surprising Roots of Fascism Arnold Beichman on The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century by A. James Gregor hoover.org/research/surpr…

A lovely, thoughtful essay on the pleasures of haiku, by renown Shiki expert Janine Beichman. Enjoy! The Capacious Haiku nippon.com/en/japan-topic…

[NEW Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Review] Nadine Willems reviews Rin Ishigaki's 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 (Isobar Press, 2022), translated and with an introduction by Janine Beichman. chajournal.blog/2023/02/20/ove…

[REVIEW] “RIN ISHIGAKI’S POETRY AS RESILIENCE” BY NADINE WILLEMS. Janine Beichman (translator) Paul Rossiter (editor) *This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems*. bit.ly/3ZlMHfl

Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人 Thanks for tweeting this review! It's worth reading in itself, as an essay on the relation of poetry to history.

Safely received from ⁦Isobar Press⁩: isobarpress.com/titles/this-ov…

Takeshi Morisato 森里 武 Isobar Press Looking forward to talking about it with you on the podcast!

Takeshi Morisato 森里 武 Isobar Press Should have mentioned that the cover was designed by Paul Rossiter, and the illustration is from a handmade New Year's card by the poet herself, for the Year of the Dragon. American launch of the book is March 17, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.