A WOMAN'S LIFE, by Harue Aoki, Tokyo: Shichigatsudo, 2004, 120 pp., 1,200 yen (paper).
Reviewed by DAVID BURLEIGH These two poetry collections -- one by an American living in Japan, the other by a Japanese who has lived abroad -- both draw on Japanese tradition. But the differences between them are as notable as their similarities.
Harue Aoki, the younger of the two, writes in the more classical form. Some of her Japanese tanka have appeared, with English translations, on the Bilingual page of this newspaper.