A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Shuzo Takiguchi, Mary Jo Bang (Translator), Yuki Tanaka (Translator)Series:Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156Publish date:2024-11-05Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691263892ISBN-10:691263892UPC:9780691263892Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AsianBook Topic:JapaneseSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCARCJBE1Q
A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English
In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a second earthquake--French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903-1979) began to write surrealist poems,...Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691263892ISBN-10:691263892UPC:9780691263892Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AsianBook Topic:JapaneseSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCARCJBE1Q
Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems, including A Film in Which I Play Everyone and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante and Matthias G?ritz and is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Yuki Tanaka was born and raised in Japan and teaches at Hosei University in Tokyo. His debut poetry collection,...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Shuzo Takiguchi, Mary Jo Bang (Translator), Yuki Tanaka (Translator)
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