Renshi, a linked poem by several poets, is a contemporary free verse adaptation of a traditional Japanese poetic form. The thirty-six-link poem in this volume is the remarkable result of a collaboration between Japanese poet Makoto Ooka, who pioneered the revival of linked poetry in Japan. Edited by Lucy Lower. Manoa, HI: University of Hawai'i, 1994 First Printing.5.5"x8.25" tall; ix, 73pp. with Commentary by the Poets and Notes on the Poets.

What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem

Literature & Fiction

MAKOTO, OOKA

Joseph Stanton

Wing Tek Lum

Jean Yamasaki Toyama

Poetry

Univ of Hawaii

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

A String Around Autumn: Selected Poems, 1952–1980 (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan)

History & Criticism

Katydid Books

A String Around Autumn: Selected Poems, 1952-1980 (Asian Poetry in Translation Series)

The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse (REFLECTIONS)

Ooka, Makoto

KEENE, Donald

The Colors of Poetry: Essays on Classic Japanese Verse (REFLECTIONS)

Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has forgotten that human beings are more important than ideas, that human beings take priorityover everything. This poet knows, in the deepest sense, that human relationships rest on the relation of human beings to nature and to the universe. It is not difficult to see traces of the surrealist influence that colores Ooka's youth. But in contrast to many other Japanese poets, Ooka was never a blind worshipper of anything imported. Ooka is convinced that only when you approach actuality from two mutually opposing sides can you get a glimpse of its entirety. Rather than pantheism, the undercurrent of Ooka's poetry is paneroticism and it is that which saves him from indulging in conceptualization." Fromthe preface by Tanikawa Shuntaro.

Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems 1972-1989 (Asian Poetry in Translation. Japan ; 17) (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan, 16)

Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman. "One of Ooka's virtues was that he was not an intellectual, someone who has forgotten that human beings are more important than ideas, that human beings take priorityover everything. This poet knows, in the deepest sense, that human relationships rest on the relation of human beings to nature and to the universe. It is not difficult to see traces of the surrealist influence that colores Ooka's youth. But in contrast to many other Japanese poets, Ooka was never a blind worshipper of anything imported. Ooka is convinced that only when you approach actuality from two mutually opposing sides can you get a glimpse of its entirety. Rather than pantheism, the undercurrent of Ooka's poetry is paneroticism and it is that which saves him from indulging in conceptualization." From the preface by Tanikawa Shuntaro.

Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)

Cultural Writing. Poetry. Literary Criticism. Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Thomas Fitzsimmons. A priceless resource for the student and scholar of ancient Japanese poetry. These five lectures were originally presented to the College de France by Ooka, the author of more than 15 books of poetry and winner of over 10 major literary prizes, was president of the Japan PEN Club from 1989 to 1993 and was made Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Frenchgovernment just prior to being invited to give these lectures. Ooka discusses Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), the basic concepts of the imperial poetry anthologies, great women poets of the Nara and Heian eras, landscape poetry and popular songs of the middle ages.

The Poetry and Poetics of Ancient Japan (REFLECTIONS)

The Poetry and Poetics of Ancient Japan (Reflections (Katydid Books), No. 6.)

DANS L'OCEAN DU SILENCE (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

VOIX D ENCRE

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