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Highlights
- This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.
- About the Author: Makoto Ōoka (1931- ) is a renowned Japanese poet and literary critic.
- 168 Pages
- Poetry, Asian
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About the Book
This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.
Book Synopsis
This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka and Taeko Tomioka, carefully selected from the postwar period by the renowned poet and literary critic Makoto Ōoka.
Review Quotes
"This expansive anthology is essential and rewarding reading to all those interested in modern Japanese poetry. " -Review of "101 Modern Japanese Poems" at "Readings in translated Japanese Literature"
About the Author
Makoto Ōoka (1931- ) is a renowned Japanese poet and literary critic. Ōoka's poetry column 'Ori Ori no Uta' was published every day for 28 years from 1973 in Japan's leading national newspaper 'Asahi Shimbun'.
Paul McCarthy has taught Japanese literature at universities in the United States and comparative literature at universities in Japan and Korea for the past 40 years. His translations include Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novella 'A Cat, a Man and Two Women and Other Stories', which won the 1991 U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Prize for Translation of Japanese Literature, as well as other works by Tanizaki, Atsushi Nakajima and Mieko Kanai.