Author: Hagiwara SakutarōPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
Author: Hagiwara SakutarōFace at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
Author: Hagiwara SakutaroPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912672
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement in the poetic field of General Meiji endeavor to blend "Western learning with the Japanese spirit." He and perhaps he alone, have successfully combined the lyric intensity characteristic of the short forms of traditional Japanese poetry with the freedom of length, form and rhythm which characterizes the poetry of the West. In him East and West, despite Kipling's dictum, have indeed met; and from him the future poets of both traditions have much to learn. For all the startling beauty and originality of his work, Hagiwara remains a poet of the dark. Shiveringly sensitive to loveliness in all its million modes, he finds it not only in its familiar haunts but even in such unexpected subjects as rotten calm or the dead body of an alcoholic. A man intensely aware that the sun, that symbol of Japan, rises as much to cast shadows as to give light.
Face at the Bottom of the World & Other Poems
Author: Betsy AdamsFace at the Bottom of the World
Author: Sakutarō HagiwaraChicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print
Author: Marietta ChicorelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In the Volcano's Mouth
Author: Miriam Bird GreenbergPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Miriam Bird Greenberg's stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth ("I'd spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the ceiling," she writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg's experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos, and others living on society's edges. Beneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men: she writes "Everyone knows // what happens to women // who hitchhike, constantly // trying a door to the other world made of lake / bottom or low forest, abandoned house // even wild animals / have rejected." The result is a queering of On the Road, a feminist Frank Stanford at once vulnerable and canny. Richly textured, In the Volcano's Mouth is an extraordinary portrait of life on the enchanted margins.
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
Author: Peter FrancePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199247844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).
Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics
Author: Peter J. McCormickPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150174609X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
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From the Country of Eight Islands
Author: Hiroaki SatoPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231063951
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present.
Pre-faces & Other Writings
Author: Jerome RothenbergPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.