われらチパングびと: われらチパングびとPresents a selection of the work of Takahashi Mutsuo, one of Japan's leading poets. Like most contemporary Japanese poets, Takahashi writes in free verse style as well as the classic forms of the haiku and the tanka, often dedicating his poems to western writers he admires, among them Paul Bowles, Ezra Pound, Michael Longley and Ciaran Carson. |
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Maria of the Thieves53 | 53 |
Cannon59 | 59 |
Three Spells for One about to be Born | 65 |
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Anatomical Lovemaking Chart back lane become body Borges burning cherry grove coffin darkness dawn devour dismal dream drifting earth eat monkey eat potatoes eyes Ezra Pound face father fear fish fingers flesh forest freshly-baked scones glow Glyn Pursglove grandmother Guise hair head heart inside INTRODUCTION invisible island of graves James Kirkup Japan Japanese Jean Boase-Beier Jean Genet keep Kenji Nakagami labyrinth light look lotus petals lover Marco Polo Maria memory Michael Longley Mishima Yukio mistletoe monkey of death mouth murdered nautical chart Night is cracking pale Paul Bowles poems poet poetry Polo's purity raging RHETORICA Right Hand Drew Rose Tree round sapphire-tinted shadow shape of lotus shoelaces shoes shore sleep smell soul standing starting stone swinging Takahashi Mutsuo Tamaki Makoto tanka and haiku tears tender TRANSLATED travelling trembling turning University of Queensland veins village voice whooping cranes young Zipangu どろぼうたちのキリスト どろぼうたちのマリア われらチパングびと