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published
by Printed Matter Press/Saru Press International, Tokyo
in association with Wandering Minds International
copyright
2004 by Leza Lowitz
paperback,
177 pages, A5;
$15.00, Yen 1,500 (+tax)
isbn
0-935086-32-3; isbn 4-900178-24-1
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Green
Tea to Go is the latest book from author, poet, translator
and
yoga instructor Leza Lowitz. Eastern
traditions clash with much
more than Western culture in these twelve short stories and a novella
set in modern-day Japan. A Zen koan holds the key to the death of a
dolphin; a sculptor relives his father's death while shaping his art. A
British woman and her Japanese boyfriend fall in love with and
old-fashioned scale shop. An edgy English teacherr sets her sights on a
rising Japanese boxer. Two feuding American women take a strange trip
to the Spice Islands. A housewife arranges one last meeting with her
imprisoned Leftist lover. A yakuza charactar actor named Genji finally
comes to accept his face. The stories in this debut
collection from award-winning poet Leza Lowitz are not about samurai or
geisha, but people we might actually meet on a given day in the
nameless streets of Tokyo: the strange, the ordinary, the scarred, and
the real. Read what others have said of this lively
book:
"In these many-faceted stories, Leza Lowitz gives us a view of the
world as wryly original as it is sensual and poetic. Japan, evoked with
remarkable freshness, is at the center of the stories, but Lowitz's
images send gleaming ripples outward, taking us far beyond the
experience of cultural difference. The collection is an extended
meditation on the relationship between place and the interior life, as
well as a vivid mosaic portrait of her characters, in all their
contemporary complexity. ---Dianne Highbridge, author, In
the Empire of Dreams
Leza Lowitz has attended the
best
of schools: to take one of her titles, "The Schools of Things," which
is to say: The School of Words. These fluent stories are and are not
about Japan. They are about those acts of the imagination that
create a Japan most definitely - on the page. ---Arturo Silva,
Writer/Art
Critic, Vienna
There is an affectiing, charming quality to all these stories. I
especially liked "The School of Things." I got to know the sculptor and
his farther, and to honor them... Beautiful. ---Gina Berriault,
author, Women
in Their Beds
In Green Tea to Go, Japan and its people come alive with authentic
detail and a subtle, still-fresh sense of discovery. Whether
chronicling a foreigner's first hesitant days in the bewildering
megalopolis of Tokyo, or depicting with tender humor the stubborn
courage of an ancient Japanese widow, Lowitz's stories are full of
versatility and sensitivity. Her talent for breaching the cultural
divide leads the reader on a rich journey. --- Alison Anderson,
author, Hidden
Latitudes and Darwin's
Wink
"If you've lived in Japan,
this
collection will awaken memories; if you haven't, you'll find yourself
wanting to. Lowitz's prose evokes the country itself, a white porcelain
cup of green tea, an orderly surface that holds a rich and complex
world. Her Japan is never cliched, her Westerners are alwaays trying to
go deeper, to penetrate the silences. Like her sculptor in "The School
of Things," Lowitz teaches us the names of things, "so that the things
that had once seemed great mysteries --- were no longer distant and
unobtainable." --- Rhiannon Paine, author, Too
Late for the Festival
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