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"trilogy" consists of 3 sets of 13 poems: 1) WINTER JOURNEY 2) SONG OF DESTRUCTION 3) DANCE OF FIRE. Of the poems Lindley Williams Hubbell says in the introduction: "Her poetry is at once imagistic and abstract....Yoko Danno gives us direct treatment of the subject herself....Yoko Danno's images are autonomous. They are like Marianne Moor's real toads in imaginary gardens." "Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe" is a narrative poem "based on the same myth as the Noh play of the celestial maiden who has her robe of feathers stolen-though in the case of the version Miss Danno uses, the celestial maiden...

The poems in Woman in a Blue Robe consist of work written by Yoko Danno in the period 2002-2016. They range from short epigrammatic poems - sharply observed yet flavored with surrealism - to long pieces that mingle prose and poetry, dream and autobiography, fact and fiction, elegy and celebration, together with Buddhist insight and reference to Japanese historical figures and traditional culture. Among these longer pieces are evocative accounts of the great Kobe earthquake of 1995 and of the reconstruction of the author's house in its aftermath.

Respiration, breath, touch, breeze, influx, infusion, nearness, the closeness of words-these, and much more, form poet Yoko Danno's native language. What you hear is right here beside you, where you are watching and catching waves to shores both strange and familiar, floating in waters on a current of togetherness, buoyant and shared in an atmosphere overflowing with beginnings, with words that, heated by imagination's mirrors, spread and flourish into shapes of desire. --Alan Botsford, Poet and Editor of Poetry Kanto