Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan

by Edward Lueders (Translator), Naoshi Koriyama (Translator)

Overview

A richly dynamic, one-of-a-kind collection of over 240 poems from eighty leading Japanese poets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556591037
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	09/01/1995
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Editorial Reviews

Covering 80 poets and 240 poems, this comprehensive volume spans the decade before World War II, when surrealist poets dominated, to poets born in 1939 and thus touched by the war. They were influenced by French symbolists, American beats, and other Western poets but always followed their own voice, which usually rebelled against strict Japanese devices (tanka, haiku, waka), and experimented with ambiguities and forms. The effective translations by English professors suggest a Western sensibility. Unfortunately, the poets are presented in strictly chronological order, so their one-paragraph biographies do not help to group them by movement, style, or influences. Recommended for comprehensive public library poetry collections.Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Coll., Garden City, N.Y.

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