Hiromi Itō interview: Poetry as a Performance from menstruation Watch Video
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Description: Dive into the poetry of one of the most prominent figures in the Japanese literary world. In this video, the prizewinning poet Hiromi Itō performs her work and describes what poetry means to her: “The power of poetry can save us, can heal us.”nn“I have to catch my word, which is kind of floating here..,” says Itō while pointing to the sky, “… and then the word makes me move.” She relates to the medieval tradition of storytelling, in which the storytellers travels from village t
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