Category - Poetry

For the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has...

A collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators.Haiku is one of the most popular an...

A profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life. American readers’ awareness of contemporar...

In the days following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, poet Wago Ryoichi started a twitter feed. Living just 80 km away fro...

Sanki Saitō, born in western Japan in 1900, is a towering figure in twentieth-century haiku. Although he did not begin to write haiku until the age...

Special volume of Tokyo Poetry Journal devoted to contemporary Japanese poets in English translation. Includes the English language print debut of ...

このアンソロジーは豪州と日本の独特の自然を写し、豊かな情緒を吐露する詩を集めた。日本では、古来の時代の人々と同様に現代人もこの詩形を今なお日常的に楽しんでいる。英語国民は、このアンソロジーを読んで、英詩としての短歌の優れた力を知るであろう。読者は、頁をめくるごとに、日本と豪州の短歌歌人が、互い...

Scifaikuest is a quarterly digest of minimalist poetry themed to speculative, science fiction, and fantasy. Poetic forms include scifaiku, tanka, h...

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9798888877050 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Westwood Books Publishing Publication Date: 10-09-2023 Pages: 50 Product Dim...

Traveling back and forth in time, from before the Japanese Internment to the present day, "it skips a generation" examines Alison Lubar's relations...

Born in 1907 Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early ag...

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, d...

Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of ...

Izumi Shikibu (978- ), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet--the greatest of her time, perh...

An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water -- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for...

The daughter of Russian immigrants, Gladys Dubovsky survived her abusive childhood by finding refuge in poetry. In the winter of 1940 when she was ...