Uncharted Territory Indeed! - Looking into a poem by Hideko Sueoka is like looking into a kaleidoscope-an auditory kaleidoscope, with your ear doing the 'looking.' A unique configuration emerges each time as you move from poem to poem to poem. The ear is startled by utterly unpredictable sound bytes. Multi-colored patterns you've never heard before emerge and swarm the ear, and you realize that you're hearing these mesmerizing patterns for the turns, scrubbed, refreshed, delighted. ~William I. Elliott, translator & poet