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

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

Cornell East Asia

Edwin A. Cranston

156 pages • missing pub info (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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