Presents a collection of poems by Japan's preeminent poet.

Shuntaro Tanikawa: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Tanikawa, Shuntaro

Elliot, William I.

Poetry

Persea

With Silence My Companion

Prescott Street Press

Prescott st Pr

Coca-Cola Lessons

Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. Revised edition of a classic that has sold over 100,000 copies in its Japanese edition. Tanikawa is the preeminent Japanese poet of his generation. These evocative hymns of childhood sung from the mouth of a child recreate first lies, first loves, first reactions to adults, playmates and secrets.

Naked

SARU Press

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. In Japan, where even the imperial couple are required to turn off poems as part of their official functions, it is not surprising that thereis a long tradition of purely perfunctory poetry. Nonetheless, Japan's most popular living poet, Tanikawa Shuntaro, has always been known for upsetting the apple carts of Japan's formulaic society. Here he does it again, sacralizing poetry in its purely perfunctory forms as a gift that may be appropriate for any occasion. Lifting occasional poetry to a higher plane, here are poems about hunger and books, the recently constructed longest bridge in Japan, cherry blossoms, two dead friends,Mozart and weeds, making love to various women, various observations on cats, and diving into a swimming pool to wash off the lies of the world.

Giving People Poems

<p>Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. 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. It boldly affirmed the privileged sensitivity of the younger generation that had just survived a catastrophic holocaust andrejected the oppressive language and ideas of the past. DEFINITIONS, however, did not appear until 1975, and represents the author at the height of his mature poetic powers, while radically suppressing the intense lyric freedom of the earlier work.</p>

62 Sonnets & Definitions (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)

Katydid Books

Map of Days (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan) (English, Japanese and Japanese Edition)

Book by Tanikawa, Shuntaro, Wright, Harold

Map of Days: Poems (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan) (English, Japanese and Japanese Edition)

Wright, Harold

On Love, published in 1955 when Tanikawa was twenty-four, shows the poet engaging the world of our everyday lives. His earlier sense of the cosmic is not abandoned, but now he turns to love as one of the forces that makes the world go round. "Billy the Kid," for instance, is here placed in the earlier context of Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude.

On Love

Self-Help

Relationships

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Shuntaro Tanikawa: Selected Poems

With Silence My Companion

With Silence My Companion

Coca-Cola Lessons

Naked

Giving People Poems

62 Sonnets & Definitions (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan)

Map of Days (Asian Poetry in Translation Japan) (English, Japanese and Japanese Edition)

Map of Days: Poems (Asian Poetry in Translation: Japan) (English, Japanese and Japanese Edition)

On Love