River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano AkikoYosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for her exquisite erotic poetry, Akiko's work also championed the causes of feminism, pacifism, and social reform. Akiko's poetry is profoundly direct, often passionate, exposing the complexity of everyday emotions in poetic language stripped of artifice and presenting the full breadth of her poetic vision. Included are ninety-one of Akiko's tanka (a traditional five-line form of verse) and a dozen of her longer poems written in the modern style. |
Contents
Mountain Moving Day | 105 |
Women Are Plunder III | 111 |
Cold Supper | 119 |
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anthology authentic blow autumn beautiful believe beloved birth bits of natural bitter blood brother burning bush clover classical Cold Supper dear two-year-old August dozes beside emperor erotic face father float clearly Hamill AND Keiko heart Huge department store Ikkyu Japan Japanese John Stevens Keiko Matsui Gibson killed kimono sleeve koto Kyoto Labor Pains LEAF ATTACH Let bits lips literary live lonely lotus-viewing boat lover lover's parents Man'yōshū Masako Mitsukoshi and Shirokiya months moonlight mother's cheek Mountain Moving Day moved to Tokyo natural flesh rise night Osaka pale passion pink Poems of Love poetry reciting rise to float RIVER OF STARS Sam Hamill sculpture of real Shambhala Centaur Editions sinister accidents soft song spring STEPHEN ADDISS strange town struck your mother's sutra Tale of Genji tanka teachings of Buddha tears Tekkan Tekkan's former thousand tangled Tomiko universe Wisteria Women Are Plunder Yosano Akiko young monk Zen Poems