Translator: Kawamura, Kazuo
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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.