The Glass Clouding Faruk Šehi? Murder Bear

Murder Bear

In 1973 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California

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The Glass Clouding Faruk Šehi? Murder BearThe 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 wrestles with the limits of