The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame: Worlds of Memory, Discovery, and Loss in Japanese Poetry by Edwin A. Cranston

Cornell East Asia

The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame: Worlds of Memory, Discovery, and Loss in Japanese Poetry

Edwin A. Cranston

152 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction classics literary poetry
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The three essays in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry - classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)--but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes...

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