Songs and Stories of the Kojiki: as retold by Yoko Danno

The Kojiki is the oldest book extant in Japanese, completed in A.D. 712 by the high-ranking court official Ō no Yasumaro at imperial command. It is the ‘story’ of the Yamato imperial family, beginning with the creation myth of the Land of Eight Islands through the development of the state that came to be known later as Nippon.w w w“Yoko Danno’s Songs and Stories of the Kojiki is the first trans-lation to capture the full sweep & ferocity of the Japanese original.”Jerome Rothenberg, Poems and Poetics.w w wBorn, raised and educated in Japan, Yoko Danno has been writing poetry solely in English for decades. Her poems have appeared in numerous international anthologies, magazines and e-journals. She is the author of several chapbooks and books of poetry. Read more