Miho Kinnas poet, writer, translator

"Wake up, sleepwalkers: There's a new book by Miho Kinnas that will show you places in your heart you have not gone yet—because her poems are not stories of feelings but the feelings themselves. Kinnas is known for her short Japanese poems, and moral clarity. The same crystalline reality is found in her narrative poems, because Kinnas illuminates the edges of words, then wraps the whole poem in a ribbon of silk. This is craft. These poems are occupied by mothers and daughters, girls, and women; the book's subject is love and, that's a theme that is perfect to make beauty permanent, as Kinnas' poetry certainly does in Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias." - Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate