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Book SynopsisThis remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.
Trade Review“This expansive anthology is essential and rewarding reading to all those interested in modern Japanese poetry. ” —Review of “101 Modern Japanese Poems” at “Readings in translated Japanese Literature”
Table of ContentsPreface by Makoto Ōoka;
Translator’s Note by Paul McCarthy;
Introduction by Chūei Yagi;
Hitoshi Oikawa: Eyes Straight Ahead. Zigzagging.;
Yoshirō Ishihara: Funeral Train / Ashikaga;
Saburō Kuroda: The Bet / Three O’clock on an Autumn Afternoon / Birthday;
Minoru Yoshioka: The Past / Monks / Picking Saffron Flowers;
Sakon Sō:Personal History;
Tsuguo Andō: Sleet;
Masao Nakagiri: Personnel Affairs;
Hitoshi Anzai: In the Morning, the Phone Rings / Elevator Mornings;
Hiroshi Sekine: Leaving This Room / A Single Strange Step;
Rin Ishigaki: Shijimi Clams / Name-plates / Land / Houses;
Nobuo Ayukawa: A Morning Song at the Moored Boat Hotel / Heaven / If Now You Suffer;
Toyoichirō Miyoshi: Prisoner / Our Song of a May Night;
Tarō Naka: Tower / The Sea of Sleep;
Takayuki Kiyo’oka: Alabaster / Through the Ear / An Ecstasy of Sloth;
Tarō Kitamura: Rain / Morning Mirror;
Ryūichi Tamura: Etching / Sinking Temple / The Gods of Poetry;
Taka’aki Yoshimoto: Descent to a Singular World / At Tsukuda Ferry;
Hiroshi Yoshino: I Was Born / Evening Afterglow / Epithalamium;
Noriko Ibaragi: When I Was at My Prettiest / It’s Your Own Sensibility / A Tree’s Fruit;
Minoru Nakamura: Night / The Kite;
Takashi Tsujii: The White Horse;
Ryūsei Hasegawa: The Laborer’s Eyes;
Eriko Kishida: The Soundless Girl / Why Do Flowers Always;
Kazue Shinkawa: Don’t Bunch Me / Song;
Hiroshi Kawasaki: Swan / Wedding March / Walls of Lead;
Kōichi Iijima: Understanding / Mother Tongue / The Roads of Miyakojima;
Chimako Tada: First Dream of the New Year;
Takasuke Shibusawa: A Crystal Madness / Ode on Passing through Winter;
Makoto Ōoka: For Spring / On Place Names / Chōfu V;
Masami Horikawa: Fresh Pain-filled Days;
Kazuko Shiraishi: Bird / Penis (for Sumiko’s birthday);
Toshikazu Yasumizu: The Bird – in four chapters;
Yasuo Irisawa: Untitled Song / Unidentified Flying Object / Memories of Paradise;
Shuntarō Tanikawa: Sorrow / An Elaboration of the Way to My House / Mt. Yōkei;
Hiroshi Iwata: A Hateful Song / The Ordeal of the Animals;
Ryōko Shindō: The Plains;
Sachiko Yoshihara: Nonsense;
Toriko Takarabe: Field Notes at Bakoton, Kitsurin;
Toshio Nakae: Night and Fish / Vocabulary Collection, Chapter 29;
Moto’o Andō: A Difficult Walk;
Taku Miki: A Guest has Come;
Shirōyasu Suzuki: Confessional-Fiction Virgin Kiki’s Favorite Form of Play / The Name Sōta;
Taeko Tomioka: Life Story / Still Life;
Taijirō Amazawa: Morning River / Counter-Western;
Mutsuo Takahashi: The Rose Tree / Research on Weeds;
Tetsuo Shimizu: Charlie Brown;
Rie Yoshiyuki: The Blue Room;
Yukio Tsuji: Kameido;
Takahiko Okada: Borrowing the Name of Love Song / Endure the Splits and Wander On!;
Hiroshi Osada: How to Eat Radish Wheels;
Akira Shimizu: Stranded Ship;
Gōzō Yoshimasu: Burning / First Bath;
Mikirō Sasaki: Rhododendron Hotel;
Yōji Arakawa: The Greenery in Mitsuke;
Hiromi Itō: So as Not to Warp Them
List of Sources / Index of Poets / Index of Titles
