The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki and translated by Abby Ryder-Huth #Denmark a troubled young writer

a troubled young writer

The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history

joins support groups and tries medication

sharp in their intelligence

The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki and translated by Abby Ryder-Huth #Denmark a troubled young writerPublished 15th April 2025. The Glass Clouding blends translation and poetry in an extended meditation on and through Masaoka Shikis late life writing. Shiki, a Japanese poet and critic who died in 1902 of tuberculosis at the age of 35, revitalized the form of haiku. His work, a study in looking, documents his experience of confinement with a spare immediacy and a rich sense of the visible outside world he could not directly access. The Glass Clouding