{"id":303261,"date":"2019-07-11T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303261"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:06:52","slug":"tanka-collection-illustrates-life-with-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tanka-collection-illustrates-life-with-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tanka\u2019 collection illustrates life with cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Life-with-goblin-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-303262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Life-with-goblin-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A book of American-style tanka poetry\u00a0by University of Guam professor Yukiko Inoue-Smith\u00a0was published last June 3, adding to her growing collection of published works.<\/p>\n<p>Life with Goblin and PJ: A Collection of Tanka Poetry was published by JustFiction Edition.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue-Smith,\u00a0a\u00a0professor of educational psychology and research,\u00a0has\u00a0worked extensively\u00a0with tanka, which translates into \u201cshort song\u201d and is one of the oldest styles of Japanese poetry. With a structure similar to haiku, tanka poems written in Japanese are verses of 31 syllables in one straight line. But in English and other languages, they are often written using five lines.<\/p>\n<p>The poetry in Life with Goblin and PJ is inspired by the author\u2019s two cats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_303263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303263\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Yukiko-Inoue-Smith-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-303263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Yukiko-Inoue-Smith-mug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yukiko Inoue-Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have come to realize the huge benefits of having pets,\u201d Inoue-Smith writes in the book. \u201cFor most of my adult life, I concentrated on my studies and then on my work. \u2026Without knowing it, I needed cats very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other published tanka collections by Inoue-Smith include Winter Woods: My Journey into Tanka, The Inescapable Seasons of Life, Do Cats Dream? and A Shawl of Mist. She has also authored and compiled books on educational topics, including A Jungle Named Academia: Approaches to Self-Development and Growth and Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age. Her works are available for purchase via Amazon and JustFiction. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book of American-style tanka poetry\u00a0by University of Guam professor Yukiko Inoue-Smith\u00a0was published last June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":303262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-303261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-pacific","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}