Shell of Moon and Sun Poems, Misuzu Kaneko: translated by Yukari Meldrum and Alice Major metal a wool merchant and painter

a wool merchant and painter

Ironically

At the age of twenty-eight

the academic arrogance of a Cambridge don and first love in the shape of Terence Hewlet who wishes that women could be the same as men

Moby-Dick was publicly derided during its author’s lifetime

Shell of Moon and Sun Poems, Misuzu Kaneko: translated by Yukari Meldrum and Alice Major metal a wool merchant and painterKaneko Misuzu was born in 1903 and died tragically young at the age of 26. In her short career as a poet, she wrote 512 childrens poems. Not all of them were published during her lifetime, but in 1983, a childrens literature scholar discovered one set of the three notebooks that had been given to Misuzus brother who kept them over 50 years. Now, Misuzus poems are loved by Japanese readers regardless of their age. Alice Major and Yukari Meldrum, two