Beschreibung:
Edith Shiffert has lived in Kyoto, Japan since 1963. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry including: When On the Edge, New and Selected Poems, and In the Ninth Decade. In addition she has co-translated several volume of poetry from Japanese including An Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry and Haiku Master Buson.
"Shiffert's poetry possesses a graciousness which comes from a reverence for life and gratitude for being."--Kenneth Rexroth