Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ, Shiraishi Kazuko, 27 February 1931[1] – 14 June 2024) was a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono's "VVOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951.
[3] Kenneth Rexroth called her "the Allen Ginsberg of Japan," and edited a volume of her poetry in English for New Directions Press.
[6] Hiroaki Sato translated Shiraishi's poetry for BOMB Magazine,[7] and several of her anthologies have appeared in English:
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