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Genre: Poetry

  • Other side river : free verse

    Japanese poets have been writing tanka and haiku for hundreds of years. Japanese free verse, however, is barely a century old, and women’s free verse in Japan is younger still. This collection, the second volume in the Stone Bridge anthology of contemporary Japanese women’s poetry, introduces the work of some three dozen of Japan’s finest…

  • Crouched under the cherry blossoms

  • The Collected Tanka of Akitsu Ei

  • 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.

  • 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.…

  • On two shores : new and selected poems

    Poems.

  • 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.

  • 101 modern Japanese poems

    This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntaro Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ooka.

  • 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.

  • For the fighting spirit of the walnut

    Divided into 111 electrifying sections, Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut is a mix of detailed scientific observations, poetics, narrative, autobiography, rhetorical experiments, hyper-realistic images, and playful linguistic subversions – all scored with the precision of a mathematical-musical structure.