"Confessions of an Onnagata" is a colorful mix of haiku and poetic interludes spiced with pearls of wisdom about gender roles, Japanese phrases and etiquette.
The book's poetic themes are centered around the Onnagata, who is a cross-dressed male actor in the Japanese kabuki theatre. ("Onna" means woman and "Gata" (kata) means way of doing or form.)
Nothing is what it seems. Gender is an illusion. Onnagatas are the butterflies of life.
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By Maria Schneider
Nov 4, 2009
The book is... professional and attractive. I enjoyed the poetry and enjoyed holding a book in which the poems were so well-illuminated and contained with strong imagery. The content read as a thoughtful and carefully rendered project, written by one who knew the material well and cared immensely about it. - Maria Schneider, Editor (Writer's Digest)
