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Sally Ito

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September 26, 1964

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Sally Ito is a writer, translator and editor and creative writing instructor who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. She has published four books of poetry -- Frogs in the Rain Barrel, Season of Mercy, Alert to Glory, Heart's Hydrography and a collection of short stories, Floating Shore. She has been a former judge for the late Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book prize as well as a blog contributor and reviewer to the multicultural children's literature blog, PaperTigers. She has also written a blog on the late Margaret Avison called Month with Margaret: http://monthwithmargaret.blogspot.ca/
Her two translated books with co-translators Michiko Tsuboi are Are you an Echo: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko and with co-translators Joanne Epp and Sarah Klassen, Won
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Alert to Glory

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Heart's Hydrography

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My Icelandic friend whom I met in Japan years ago when she and I were Mombusho scholars recommended this book to me. The story is of a 75 year old Icelandic restaurateur, Kristofer, who embarks on a journey during the height of the Covid pandemic to ...more
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I just finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera. It was my book club's pick. Both the novel and novelist have a reputation, and having not read any Marquez before, I launched into my reading of the novel wondering why and what this book was famou ...more
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It's December and around this time of year, I look for good childrens' books. The Angel Tree was a stumble-upon find in Value Village. While my daughter was busy perusing the clothing racks, I went to the books section and began rifling through the b ...more
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This is a re-reading review. On our summer holidays, we drive across the prairie from Winnipeg to Edmonton. I always read a book aloud to my husband as he drives. This summer, on a whim, I chose a childhood favorite -- Moominsummer Madness -- digging ...more
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A Polish friend told me about this book, except she read it in the original Russian and as a novel. It's a bit of a modern classic among Russian readers, I'm told. I thought reading this as a graphic novel might make it a faster, quicker interpretive ...more
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I got this book out of the library as I was curious about what a 'graphic novel' or 'manga' by Hayao Miyazaki would look like. A book is a different medium than a film. The story of Shuna's Journey is mitigated entirely by images and was intended by ...more
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