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Description of the Book:
A sunshower in Japanese culture is also known as a 'foxes' wedding' or kitsune no yomeiri.
Among a variety of legends, one tale describes how chickens, when caught in the confusion of the combination of rain and sun, are struck still, and while the humans are sheltering inside, the foxes prey on the vulnerable birds and conduct their highly mystical wedding ceremonies.
Dire penalties apply to those who dare disturb the sanctity of the wedding ...
These poems form a loose narrative, inspired by elements of Japanese legends involving foxfires, festivals, and a wedding. There is a dark edge to the light of the foxes' love, as the sun pierces a black, thunderous sky.
Love, as described here, has the fire and changeability of adolescence, and captures the casualties of the pursuit of love.
The Foxes' Wedding
Author's Name: Kristen Baker About the Author: Kristen Baker was a student of English Literature at the University of Sydney and is now working in arts education. Kristen has always loved fairytales, long after it was socially appropriate. In particular, she was obsessed with a large volume of world tales and legends which had lurid, grotesque illustrations which both delighted and scared her out of her wits. To this day, she cannot look upon the drawing of the sea-witch from the Little Mermaid. To Kristen, fairytales capture the combined wonder and horror of childhood, as one often navigates an unfamiliar world with its beauty but also its rules, with freedom but also a sense of fateful powerlessness. It is with this lens that she wrote these set of poems as inspired by these significant cultural stories. It is her dear wish that any one puts down this volume immediately and looks up these stories about the foxes' weddings instead. Book ISBN: 9789357618335