"This is the most thoughtful, comprehensive, and skillful anthology of Miyazawa's works ever made available in English."--J. Thomas Rimer, coeditor of "Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook" "How wonderful to have Miyazawa's work that emerged at a time when Japanese literature was undergoing a sea change. Thanks to Sato's insightful direction, this volume of poetry includes the life and the literary contexts. This is a significant contribution to the Millennium project!"--Kimiko Hahn, author of ...
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"This is the most thoughtful, comprehensive, and skillful anthology of Miyazawa's works ever made available in English."--J. Thomas Rimer, coeditor of "Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook" "How wonderful to have Miyazawa's work that emerged at a time when Japanese literature was undergoing a sea change. Thanks to Sato's insightful direction, this volume of poetry includes the life and the literary contexts. This is a significant contribution to the Millennium project!"--Kimiko Hahn, author of "The Narrow Road to the Interior"
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No Jacket. Berkeley. 2007. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520247796. Edited & With An Introduction by Hiroaki Sato. 248 pages. paperback. Cover illustration: Miyazawa Kenji taking a walk, mid-1920s. Cover design: Nola Burger. keywords: Asia Japan Literature Poetry Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa's work into English. Hiroaki Sato's own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa's poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet's significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O'Brien. CONTENTS-List of Illustrations; Foreword-A Modernist in the Mountains; Geoffrey O'Brien, Introduction; A Note on the Translations; POEMS-From Spring & Asura (First Collection); Proem; Refractive Index; The Snow on Saddle Mountain; Thief; The Thief; Love & Fever; Spring & Asura; Daybreak; Sunlight and Withered Grass; Cloud Semaphore; A Break; Rest; Annelid Dancer (Annelida Tänzerin); Report; The Landscape Inspector; Haratai Sword-Dancing Troupe; A Mountain Patrolman; Traveler; Bamboo & Oa; Masaniello; The Morning of the Last Farewell; Pine Needles; Pine Needles; Voiceless Grief; White Birds; Okhotsk Elegy; Volcano Bay: A Nocturne; Commandment on No Greed; Love in Religious Mode; Past Desire; Single-Tree Field; Ice Fog in Iihatov; Winter & Galaxy Station; From Spring & Asura (Second Collection); The Moon on the Water and the Wound; Trying to drink from the spring; Smallpox; Rest; The Weather Bureau; The Crow; The Sea-Eroded Tableland; Mountain Fire; From under a poplar; Reservoir Note; Spring; The railroad and the national highway; The Tsugaru Strait; The Horse; Cow; The Bull; Transition of a Bird; Mr. Pamirs the Scholar Takes a Walk; If I pass through this forest; Spring; Spring: Variation; Wind & Cedar; Cloud; When the wind comes; Harvesting the Earless Millet; Wet in soggy cold rain; Night dew and wind mingle desolately; Good Devil Praying for Absolution; Excursion Permit; Zen Dialogue; Fantasy during a Journey; Wind & Resentments; Shadow from the Future; Love-Hate for Poetry; Some Views Concerning the Proposed Site of a National Park; An Opinion Concerning a Proposed National Park Site; Drought & Zazen; The Iwate Light Railway: July (Jazz); Residence; A Valediction; The National Highway; From Spring & Asura (Third Collection); Spring; Somehow I walk up; The Snake Dance; Field; The corn baking in the blue smoke; Banquet; Distant Labor; Distant Work; Cabbage Patch; Hospital; Flowers & Birds: November; Crows in a Hundred Postures; The buckets climb; Cultivation; Sapporo City; Ambiguous Argument about a Spring Cloud; Pig; Malice; Now burnt-out eyes ache; In DQshin-chQ toward daybreak; The Unruly Horse; The Politicians; Politicians; Devil's Words: 4; We lived together; The Prefectural Engineer's Statement Regarding Clouds; At the very end of the blue sky; Raving; Colleagues; A Rice-Growing Episode; Flood; The Master of the Field; The Breeze Comes Filling the Valley; What a coward I am;...
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New. The poet Miyazawa Kenji was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who is known for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. This book collects his poetry and provides an introduction to his life and work. It includes poems translated by Gary Snyder. It features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien. Editor(s): Sato, Hiroaki. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 270 pages, 9 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 350. 2007. 1st Edition. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
