{"product_id":"9781904556817","title":"Our Shared Japan","description":"Given the distance which separates the two countries, it is remarkable the interest contemporary Irish poets take in Japan, both as subject and-responding to its rich literature and culture-as exemplar.\u003cp\u003eTo mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1957, \u003cbr\u003eOur Shared Japan brings together a large selection of poems by Irish writers (both in English and in Irish) written or published during those 50 years. \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry, it also includes many younger poets who have grown up with and, in various ways, responded to those growing connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the poets have visited or spent time in Japan and write from that experience; others respond to a Japan of the imagination, adopting or adapting Japanese poetic tecnnique as a means to expand and enrich their own ways of looking at the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this respect, Our Shared Japan is a celebration of outside influence, but it is also a celebration of the power of poetry, wherever we may travel to find it, \u003cbr\u003eto bring us to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dedalus Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061980348656,"sku":"9781904556817","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904556817_p0.jpg?v=1763614803","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904556817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}