Translator: Kawamura, Kazuo
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Elegy and benediction : selected poems, 1947-89
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The New Poetry of Japan, the ’70s and ’80s
Translated from the Japanese by Christopher Drake, Robert Brady, Odagawa Kazuko, Eric Selland, William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. This anthology contains the books of five poets—Fujii Sadakazu, Hirata Toshiko, Matsuura Hisaki, Yoshida Fuminori, Inagawa Masato—who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as the voice of a new tradition, asserting an individual voice against the…
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Demented flute : selected poems, 1967-1986
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62 sonnets and definitions : poems and prosepoems
The two collections in this volume present differing aspects of Japan’s most widely appreciated modern poet. 62 Sonnets appeared in 1953 when he was 22 years old. Definitions did not appear until 1975, and represents the author at the height of his mature poetic powers.
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Naked : poems
A collection of poems sung from the mouth of a child recreates the world of first lies, first loves, piano lessons, parents, relatives, playmates and secrets.
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Floating the river in melancholy
Poems.
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Giving people poems
Japan’s most popular living poet, Tanikawa Shuntaro, has always been known for upsetting the apple carts of Japan’s formulaic society. Here he does it again, sacralizing poetry in its purely perfunctory forms as a gift that may be appropriate for any occasion.
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On love
Poems.
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With silence my companion
Poems.
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The Naif
Poems.