Sleeping Sinning Falling

by Takahashi, Mutsuo; Sato, Hiroaki

• ISBN13: 9780872862685
• ISBN10: 0872862682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books in English translation. One of them, From the Country of Eight Islands, an anthology of Japanese poetry which he translated and edited with Burton Watson, won the American P.E.N. translation prize for 1982.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Sleeping, Sinning, Falling	p. 5
from A Bunch of Keys	p. 37
Winter Eros	p. 39
Three Curses for Those to be Born	p. 40
We Are Dead	p. 43
Pythagoras Beans	p. 46
The Day of Fire	p. 50
An Ambiguous Portrait Based on Quotations from Eight People	p. 52
On the Reality of a Pot	p. 56
from Prism	p. 61
We, the Zipangu People	p. 63
If You Are to Discuss the Eyes	p. 64
Two Exchanges on L'objet d'art, Shoes	p. 67
Table Manners	p. 69
Blind Day	p. 72
Following the Key Words	p. 74
Ah, Oh	p. 77
Epitaph for the Poet Himself	p. 79
Declaration of Love for Dolls	p. 80
from The Garden of Rabbits	p. 83
The Garden	p. 85
A Study of Weeds	p. 86
Anti-Angelico	p. 88
Monkey-Eaters	p. 89
Echo	p. 90
The Bad Rabbit	p. 91
On the Beach	p. 93
A Sketch for "Traveling Man"	p. 94
Rhetorica	p. 98
Three Poems	p. 99
The Invisible Book	p. 101
A Tale of Three Cities	p. 103
Lessons of the Sand	p. 105
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