Translator: Sato, Hiroaki
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Anthology of modern Japanese poets
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Japanese women poets : an anthology
This anthology encompasses all the major Japanese women poets, over one hundred, arranged chronologically and all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse.
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Poems of a penisist
“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi’s work, reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s, is a celebration of the male body, treating homosexual desire as something sacred.…
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Persona : a biography of Yukio Mishima
A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.
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Basho’s Narrow road : spring & autumn passages : two works
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan’s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet’s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary…
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Sleeping, sinning, falling
Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry.
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Silk and insight
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My friend Hitler and other plays of Yukio Mishima.
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Spring & asura; poems of Kenji Miyazawa.
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist