<p>This book is a tanka treasure chest, filled with nearly five hundred poems by the acknowledged master of the genre, Sanford Goldstein. Not only has Goldstein, with his translating partners, made the classics of modern Japanese poetry available in English, he has written some of the best tanka ever rendered first in English. Six published collections of the tanka of Sanford Goldstein are compiled in this single, historic, volume by "the father of tanka in English." For anyone who wants to understand tanka, who wants a genuine tanka experience, this book is a must-read. Sanford Goldstein's Four Decades on My Tanka Road is where you start your own journey with the world's oldest continually-anthologized poetic genre.</p>

Four Decades on My Tanka Road

Literature & Fiction

Goldstein, Sanford

Poetry

Modern English Tanka Press

Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami (Tut Books. L)

YOSANO, AKIKO

Literary

Tuttle Pub

Four Decades on My Tanka Road is a tanka treasure chest, filled with nearly five hundred poems by the acknowledged master of the genre, Sanford Goldstein. Not only has Goldstein, with his translating partners, made the classics of modern Japanese poetry available in English, he has written some of the best tanka ever rendered first in English. Six published collections of the tanka of Sanford Goldstein are compiled in this single, historic, volume by “the father of tanka in English.” For anyone who wants to understand tanka, who wants a genuine tanka experience, this book is a must-read. Sanford Goldstein’s Four Decades on My Tanka Road is where you start your own journey with the world’s oldest continually-anthologized poetic genre.

Four Decades on My Tanka Road: The Tanka Collections of Sanford Goldstein

Winfred Press

Sanford Goldstein, the grand old man of tanka, is now eighty-eight years old. A co-translator of modern classics of Japanese tanka, editor of journals and anthologies, and a gifted poet in the mold of Ishikawa Takuboku, Goldstein has been on his tanka road for fifty years. In his latest book, he says, “[M]inimalism is a state of mind. Something appears in the mind and before one realizes it, the poem has been formed.” All the tanka in This Short Life have this immediacy. They are uncensored, fresh, honest, and engaged. Rationalization and literary artifice are excluded. They are life as it happens.

This Short Life: Minimalist Tanka

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

this tanka whirl: a collection of tanka

<p>Now ninety years old, Sanford Goldstein is the foremost tanka poet writing in English today. In Tanka Left Behind 1968, he gives us a glimpse into his early life and development as a poet. 1968 was a turbulent time when the poet's wife was hospitalized with a serious brain disorder, his daughter was hospitalized after a bicycle accident, and his father died. Through it all, Goldstein was aware of the outside world with its protest marches and civil rights issues. The black nurses and patients at the hospital are part of the constrained intimacy of that time, each family consumed by their private griefs, yet sharing a common humanity. As may be expected for a journal written in 1968, Goldstein's language is sometimes dated, but that too is part of the era. Now, nearly fifty years later, looking back as he writes his introduction, he gives us perspective on his literature and his life.</p>

Tanka Left Behind 1968: Tanka from the Notebooks of Sanford Goldstein

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