Women Poets of Japan - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811208208ISBN-10:811208206UPC:9780811208208Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), AsianSize:7.95 x 5.19 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCWYV25827
In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles, followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets, and including the contemporary school of free verse--Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment. Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811208208ISBN-10:811208206UPC:9780811208208Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), AsianSize:7.95 x 5.19 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCWYV25827
Rexroth, Kenneth: - Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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