The New and Selected Yuri, Writing From Peeling Till Now: Ishmael Reed Publishing Company

What People Are Saying About Yuri Kageyama "Through the anguished eyes of a mongrel soul, Yuri Kageyama sees the boundless universe in everyday life." --Shuntaro Tanikawa, author of Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude and Naked. "Yuri - behind that prim Japanese face lurks a sultry demoness of words." --Geraldine Kudaka, author of Numerous Avalanches at the Point of Intersection. "Her poetry is a spiritual song that echoes across the borders of cultures, race and gender." --Yoshiaki Tago, director of "Talking TAIKO," "Worst Contact," and "Maid in Akihabara." "Yuri Kageyama is a shrewd denizen of the water-world, savage caricaturist, a ghostly wraith, perpetual exile and huge-passioned troublemaker." --Richard Oyama, author of The Country They Know. "Her gaze is honest, direct and outspoken." --Donald Richie, author of The Films of Akira Kurosawa, in a review of Peeling in The Japan Times. "Yuri Kageyama sings of love, jazz and everyday life." --Milton Murayama, author of All I Asking For Is My Body. "These poems convey an intelligent, sensitive and sexual woman who enjoys life to the full, and who can express herself in a language filled to excess with energy." --The Mainichi Daily News review of Peeling.