Killing Kanoko

Hiromi Ito (trans. Jeffrey Angles).

I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples.

'Killing Kanoko is a powerful, long-overdue collection (in fine translation) of poetry from the radical Japanese feminist poet, Hiromi Ito. Her poems reverberate with sexual candor, the exigencies and delights of the paradoxically restless/rooted female body, and the visceral imagery of childbirth leap off the page as performative modal structures – fierce, witty, and vibrant. Hiromi is a true sister of the Beats.' – Anne Waldman.