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          Kazuko Shiraishi (–) was one of Japan's foremost poets..

          Kazuko Shiraishi

          Biography

          Kazuko Shiraishi (Vancouver, 1931) had her breakthrough in the 1950s as a female poet who was unconventional in all respects.

          Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, died of heart failure on June

        1. Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, died of heart failure on June
        2. Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died.
        3. Kazuko Shiraishi (–) was one of Japan's foremost poets.
        4. Kazuko Shiraishi was born in Vancouver, Canada, in She moved to Japan with her family shortly before World War II. At the age of seventeen, she became.
        5. Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation.

          6. After cutting short her studies at the prestigious Waseda University, she published her debut collection The City Where It Rains Eggs (Tamago no furu machi, 1951) at the age of 20. The work which also led to her breakthrough outside Japan in the 1970s shows influences of the American Beat poets, especially Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), with whom she has also performed, and such jazz musicians as John Coltrane.

          Her early childhood was spent in Vancouver, but when she was seven, she moved to Japan. This early period outside Japan has surely acquired a certain symbolic meaning: an enlightened period of freedom and love that always formed a contrast to Japan and that seemed to resonate in the avant-garde status of her poetry in the 1960s and 1970s.

          From the outset, Shiraishi has the name of being an outsider, or, as she herself has