On Two Shores

by Takahashi, Mutsuo

• ISBN13: 9781904556497
• ISBN10: 1904556493
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-15
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd

Summary

Mutsuo Takahashi was born in Japan in 1937, and educated at Fukuoka University of Education. A playwright and poet, he has published many collections of poems in Japanese. His collection. On Two Shores, features translations by Mitsuko Ohno and Frank Sewell, and an introduction by Nobuaki Tochigi.

Table of Contents

Morning	p. 1
Terrified	p. 2
Courier	p. 3
The letter	p. 4
Reading a letter	p. 6
The olive tree	p. 7
Fall	p. 8
Eyes	p. 9
Everlasting bread	p. 10
The cedar	p. 11
Fifteen-year-old	p. 12
The round table	p. 13
To the terrorist, Ezra Pound	p. 14
Tale of a grass spirit (perhaps)	p. 16
Ebola	p. 18
Carriers	p. 19
Faith	p. 20
Trilogy for Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill	p. 21
The poet's stick	p. 24
Three poems in memory of W. B. Yeats	p. 25
Beyond the hedge	p. 27
North	p. 28
Changing places	p. 29
Going to the well	p. 30
The process	p. 31
Foxes	p. 32
Visiting Kilmainham Gaol	p. 33
Potatoes	p. 36
In Ireland, I	p. 37
On two shores	p. 38
The cliff	p. 39
Mistletoe	p. 40
Echo	p. 41
Nectar	p. 43
Dog meets man	p. 44
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