Girl in a Box’ In her debut novel, “Girl in a Box,” Mill Valley author Jean Gordon Kocienda pulls back the curtain on the ...

Writer and poet Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) wrote about her dread of the raging Spanish Flu in one of her publications. She received multiple vaccinations, strictly followed her gargling regimen and made ...

EMBRACING THE FIREBIRD: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Poetry, by Janine Beichman. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002, 352 pp., $23.95 (paper). Vivid, rich, ...

The early-twentieth-century poet Yosano Akiko earned herself a place in Japan’s literary history. She also left behind a series of essays on the influenza pandemic that hit Japan hard in the years ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The poetry of Akiko openly expresses personal experience, especially romantic love, in language that ...