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19%OFFMakoto ?Oka - 101 Modern Japanese Poems - 9780857285584 - V9780857285584
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101 Modern Japanese Poems

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Description for 101 Modern Japanese Poems Hardcover. Editor(s): Ooka, Makoto. Translator(s): McCarthy, Paul. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.

This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka, Taeko Tomioka, Nobuo Ayukawa, Tarō Kitamura, Ryūichi Tamura, Hiroshi Yoshino, Noriko Ibaragi, Gōzō Yoshimasu and Yōji Arakawa, carefully selected by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka to ensure that the chosen poems express each poet’s special character. The collection provides a superb introduction to Japanese poetry from the immediate postwar period to the mid-1990s, and through these works one can sense the movement in poetry that reflected the challenging transitions and dizzying transformations occurring in postwar and contemporary Japan. Selected for inclusion ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Thames River Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857285584
SKU
V9780857285584
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About Makoto ?Oka
Makoto Ōoka (1931– ) is a renowned Japanese poet and literary critic. Ōoka’s poetry column ‘Ori Ori no Uta’ was published every day for 28 years from 1973 in Japan’s leading national newspaper ‘Asahi Shimbun’. Paul McCarthy has taught Japanese literature at universities in the United States and comparative literature at universities in Japan and Korea for ... Read more

Reviews for 101 Modern Japanese Poems
“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”

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