Escape and Inescapable Conflict - Inoue-Smith, Yukiko
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Escape. This is an essential theme for my tanka. Feelings of wanting to escape. What I am talking about here is different from feelings of wanting to run away when being chased. It refers to a state of mind in which one feels like a bird in a cage. A bird with its wings clipped lives a miserable existence, in that cage. What drives my tanka poetry is often the despair of no escape. At other times, I also feel hope that I might be able to escape. I constantly sway between hope and despair. Those must be my honest feelings. I was once told that I had at most ten years of vision remaining. But…mehr

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Escape. This is an essential theme for my tanka. Feelings of wanting to escape. What I am talking about here is different from feelings of wanting to run away when being chased. It refers to a state of mind in which one feels like a bird in a cage. A bird with its wings clipped lives a miserable existence, in that cage. What drives my tanka poetry is often the despair of no escape. At other times, I also feel hope that I might be able to escape. I constantly sway between hope and despair. Those must be my honest feelings. I was once told that I had at most ten years of vision remaining. But since then, it has been thirty-five years, and I have not lost my eyesight. I wanted to fulfill my life's purpose in learning. For that reason, while I was trembling at the doctor's prediction of my blindness, I came to America to study at a graduate school. America was never my "safe haven." Instead, I felt safe in simply knowing that I had a homeland to return to: cherry blossoms bloom and fall in my memories. Snow also reminds me of my snowy hometown." cherry blossoms" and "snow" are themselves the origins of my tanka writing.
Autorenporträt
Yukiko Inoue-Smith, PhD, a professor emerita in educational psychology, has been extensively involved in work with tanka (which is Japan¿s oldest poetry genre). She has been a member of the International Tanka. Her tanka books include: The Happiness of Living Unknown (2023); An Island of Plumerias (2020); and My Journey into Tanka (2019).