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9780892552597

Shuntaro Tanikawa: Selected Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780892552597

  • ISBN10:

    089255259X

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-17
  • Publisher: PERSEA

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Summary

A major selection of the work of Japan's preeminent poet. Winner of every significant award for literature in Japan, Shuntaro Tanikawa is that country's foremost living poet. Selected Poems draws from eleven books written over forty years and is masterfully translated in close collaboration with the poet. It is the only major collection of Tanikawa's work available in English. Tanikawa writes a free verse filled with passion and curiosity. American readers will be struck by his fascination with their world and culture--Charlie Brown, John Coltrane, and Oscar Hammer-stein are among those with significant cameos. He also displays a strong poetic connection to his American contemporaries, the Beat and Black Mountain poets, especially Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg. In Selected Poems, readers are treated to an urbane feast of discovery, philosophy, and play.

Author Biography

Fanny Howe is Professor of American Writing and American Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Preface 9(15)
From Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude (1952)
Ambitions
15(1)
At the Bus Stop
15(1)
A Night
16(1)
A Grey Stage
17(1)
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude
17(1)
Hospital
18(1)
Secrets and X-Rays
19(1)
Nero
19(2)
A Contemporary Afternoon Snack
21(1)
From 62 Sonnets (1953)
22(8)
With Silence My Companion (1968)
30(85)
From At Midnight in the Kitchen I Just Wanted to Talk to You (1975)
At Midnight in the Kitchen I Just Wanted to Talk to You
43(4)
Written at 14 E. 28th Street, New York City
47(1)
'My Favourite Things'
48(1)
For John Coltrane
49(1)
After Shakespeare
49(2)
On the Beach
51(1)
From Definitions (1975)
Scissors
52(1)
Obsession with an Apple
53(1)
A Personal Opinion about Grey
54(1)
Pseudo-Anatomical Self-Portrait
54(1)
Will the Landscape Flow out of the Frame?
55(1)
Naming Hidden Names
56(1)
From Coca-Cola Lessons (1980)
(Where)
57(3)
Notes for 'Starvation'
60(4)
Some Forged Fragments of the Talamaika Tribe
64(14)
From Songs of Nonsense (1985)
Ball of Yarn
78(1)
Fish Come from the River
79(1)
Surgery
79(1)
The Hole
80(1)
Loquats
80(1)
Newspaper
81(1)
A Friend who Leapt to his Death
81(1)
Poop
82(1)
Evening
82(1)
Squash
83(1)
From Floating the River in Melancholy (1988)
Sidewalk Shop
84(1)
Polaroid Camera
85(1)
Four-Frame Comics
86(2)
A Pebble
88(3)
From Naked (1988)
Goodbye
91(1)
A Lie
92(1)
Grandpa
92(1)
Tree
93(1)
Grandma
94(1)
Dad
94(1)
Secret
95(1)
Switch
96(1)
Evening
96(2)
From The Naif (1993)
A Key of Words
98(1)
An Old Radio
99(1)
A Night Radio
99(1)
One Poem
100(1)
A Kita-Karuizawa Diary
101(7)
From Listening to Mozart (1995)
Breeze, Graveyard, Dulcimer
108(1)
Get Away, Cat!
109(1)
A Stroll through Salzburg
110(1)
Even People Who Can't Love Others
111(1)
Waves off the Oregon Coast
112(1)
The Pure Land
113(1)
Bare Ground
114(1)
Listening to Mozart
115

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