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Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. Revised edition of a classic that has sold over 100,000 copies in its Japanese edition. Tanikawa is the preeminent Japanese poet of his generation. These evocative hymns of childhood sung from the mouth of a child recreate first lies, first loves, first reactions to adults, playmates and secrets.
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Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa's hymns of childhood re-create the world of first lies, first loves, piano lessons, parents, relatives, playmates, and secrets. With precocious truthfulness, they offer a sense of wonder and foreboding. What does the child know that adults have forgotten, and what has the poetadult determined to relive in bittersweet recollection? These poems surprise, delight, and disturb as they ramble through time and experiences familiar to all of us who grow old into wisdom.Author Biography: Shuntaro Tanikawa's first book of poems was published in 1952. In the succeeding decades he has published nearly sixty volumes of verse as well as translations of Mother Goose and "Peanuts," earning him the reputation as one of Japan's most inventive masters of form and language. In 1989 he received the American Book Award for Floating the River in Melancholy.; William I. Elliott is a poet and translator who has lived in Japan for over twenty years. He has translated numerous volumes of Tanikawa's verse.; Kazuo Kawamura teaches English literature at Kanto Gakuin University, where he is chairman of the English Graduate School. He has translated numerous volumes of Tanikawa's verse. Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human
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