It contains the work of three dozen Japanese women writers, including well-known poets as Shiraishi Kazuko, Ishigaki Rin and Ibaragi Noriko, who appeared alongside emerging Korean-Japanese ( Zainichi) poets Chuwol Chong, Kyong Mi Park and Ainu poet Mieko Chikapp, among others. Lowitz and Aoyama later published The Collected Tanka of Akitsu Ei (AHA Poetry Press.)Ī companion volume, Other Side River: Free Verse (1995) featured contemporary Japanese women free-verse poets in translation. She was editor and co-translator with Miyuki Aoyama and Akemi Tomioka of the groundbreaking anthology: A Long Rainy Season: Contemporary Japanese Women’s Poetry (1994), which introduced Western readers to the haiku and tanka ( waka) of Fumi Saito, Yuko Kawano, Machi Tawara, Akitsu Ei and thirteen others. She studied with poets Stan Rice and Robert Hass.ĭuring the 1990s, Lowitz helped to bring many modern Japanese poets and fiction writers into English for the first time. in creative writing from San Francisco State University in 1988, where she briefly taught before moving to Japan. in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and her M.A. She was accepted into the first year of NYU's School of Dramatic Writing at age 18, and attended NYU for two years before transferring to U.C. Lowitz grew up in San Francisco and Berkeley, and attended Berkeley High School, from which she graduated in 1980. She has written, edited and co-translated over twenty books, many about Japan, its relationship with the US, on the changing role of Japanese women in literature, art and society, and about the lasting effect of the Second World War and the desire for reconciliation in contemporary Japanese society. Leza Lowitz (born December 29, 1962, San Francisco) is an American expatriate writer residing in Tokyo, Japan. ( January 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

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In Search of the Sun by Leza Lowitz