{"id":4184,"date":"2016-10-27T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2016-10-27T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:10:29","slug":"rediscovering-misuzu-kaneko-with-david-jacobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering Misuzu Kaneko with David Jacobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/10\/Are-You-an-Echo-coverforpost.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It took many, many rewrites to find the right degree of honesty, simplicity, and child-friendliness. In the end, I think we made the right decision.<br \/>Most people tell us they\u2019re glad we handled the story the way we did.<br \/>Even one of the folks who opposed the inclusion of her death wrote me recently to say she had changed her mind. She was glad we decided to talk about Misuzu\u2019s tragic end, because it helps us appreciate<br \/>her character and her poetry that much more.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a Q&#038;A with author David Jacobson about <em>Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko<\/em>, illustrated by Toshikado Hajiri and translated by Jacobson, Sally Ito, and Michiko Tsuboi<\/em> (Chin Music Press, September 2016). Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll follow up with some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/rediscovering-misuzu-kaneko-david-jacobson\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It took many, many rewrites to find the right degree of honesty, simplicity, and child-friendliness. In the end, I think we made the right decision.Most people tell us they\u2019re glad we handled the story the way we did.Even one of the folks who opposed the inclusion of her death wrote me recently to say she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}