Floating shore

by Sally Ito

In the emotional and social distance between emigration and real arrival, between travel and understanding the place one visits, is the floating shore of identity. The stories in Sally Ito's book explore, from different angles and perspectives, the newness of arrival, and how it can alter personality, vision and lives. Ito's vision is beautiful and commanding, and her writing is moving and honest.

206 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 1998

About the author

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, Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg.

Reviews

[Martyna Y · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘Japonisme’:

“His hands were so big the world fit in them, and yet like sand she filtered through, returned to sea.”

‘Ronin’:

“Stuck here ‘cause we can’t succeed at anything. Ronin— we’re nothing but useless ronin.

Ronin— lordless samurai.”

[Augustė · Rating 3 out of 5]

Japonisme ★★☆☆☆
Ronin ★★★☆☆