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On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku

Name: On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku
ISBN: 9780615345628

Ishikawa Takuboku

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At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan’s ancient, highly formal, at times formulaic poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning with poems rich in childhood sorrow and wonder, he progressed in his short life to a poetry of searing objectivity and miraculous self-knowing. Before dying of tuberculosis at twenty-six, Takuboku achieved in his poems a kind of Buddhist awakening, observing by their means the emptiness of self in a riveting, heartbreaking world. On Knowing Oneself Too Well offers, in Tamae K. Prindle’s lucid translation, the most comprehensive selection in English of this vital modern poet.
Trans. by Tamae K. Prindle

Anno:

2010

Casa editrice:

Syllabic Press

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

144

ISBN 10:

061534562X

ISBN 13:

9780615345628