Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556591039 ISBN 13: 9781556591037

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1995

Synopsis

A richly dynamic, one-of-a-kind collection of over 240 poems from eighty leading Japanese poets.

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Homecoming by Aida Tsunao
A Legend by Aida Tsunao
Wild Duck by Aida Tsunao
Bloodshed by Akiya Yutaka
Fairy Tale Of The Mountains by Akiya Yutaka
North Country by Akiya Yutaka
At Midnight by Amano Tadashi
A Hyphen by Amano Tadashi
A Myth by Amano Tadashi
City Poem by Amazawa Taijiro
Late Summer For The Tree by Amazawa Taijiro
A Song Of Weeds by Amazawa Taijiro
The Abandoned Horse by Anzai Hitoshi
Confinement by Anzai Hitoshi
The New Blade by Anzai Hitoshi
After The Summer by Ayukawa Nobuo
A Room by Ayukawa Nobuo
The Rotation Of Non-desire by Ayukawa Nobuo
The Endearing Sea by Dobashi Jiju
My Bicycle Bell by Dobashi Jiju
Wrong Words by Dobashi Jiju
For by Fujitomi Yasuo
Mystery by Fujitomi Yasuo
Today by Fujitomi Yasuo
Cabbages At Night by Hasegawa Ryusei
From A Tenement House by Hasegawa Ryusei
Mushrooms Of Summer by Hasegawa Ryusei
The Days That Would Glisten Like Diamonds by Ibaraki Noriko
An Unfamiliar Town by Ibaraki Noriko
When I Was Prettiest In My Life by Ibaraki Noriko
Imperfect Poetry And Meaningless Poetry by Iijima Koichi
A Spoon by Iijima Koichi
The Way Of The Rain by Iijima Koichi
The Country I Visited by Irisawa Yasuo
The Crow by Irisawa Yasuo
On Love by Irisawa Yasuo
Hands by Ishigaki Rin
An Island by Ishigaki Rin
These Days by Ishigaki Rin
The Accordion And Morning by Ishihara Yoshiro
River by Ishihara Yoshiro
Wheat by Ishihara Yoshiro
Entry In My Diary, Morning Of March 27 by Iwata Hiroshi
Historical Facts by Iwata Hiroshi
Peacetime Industry by Iwata Hiroshi
Accidentalism by Kanai Choku
By The Riverbank by Kanai Choku
Mud by Kanai Choku
Reed by Kaneko Mitsuharu
Song Of A Sad Pearl Diver by Kaneko Mitsuharu
Daffodils by Kasuya Eiichi
Record Of A Strange Tale 1 by Kasuya Eiichi
Record Of A Strange Tale 4 by Kasuya Eiichi
Childhood by Katagiri Yuzuru
A Poem To Be Continued By The Reader by Katagiri Yuzuru
A Wind by Katagiri Yuzuru
Chagall by Kataoka Fumio
Night by Kataoka Fumio
The Story Of My Hands by Kataoka Fumio
Midnight Dance by Kawamura Yoichi
On The Sand Dune by Kawamura Yoichi
The Sound Of The Wind by Kawamura Yoichi
By Some Means Or Other by Kawasaki Hiroshi
Living by Kawasaki Hiroshi
Remembrance by Kawasaki Hiroshi
The Knocking At The Door by Kihara Koichi
Small Bridges by Kihara Koichi
Where Do You Come From? by Kihara Koichi
Beyond That by Kijima Hajime
Cattle by Kijima Hajime
More Than Anything Else by Kijima Hajime
About Time by Kisaragi Shin
A Song Of The Flying Fish by Kisaragi Shin
The Typhoon by Kisaragi Shin
Birds by Kitamura Taro
Faint Light by Kitamura Taro
Yokohama by Kitamura Taro
The Length Of One Day by Kiyooka Takayuki
The Man Playing The Oboe by Kiyooka Takayuki
Midsummer by Kiyooka Takayuki
The Bridge by Kokai Eiji
Dark Dirge by Kokai Eiji
Genesis by Kokai Eiji
She by Kora Rumiko
A Sound Of The Sea by Kora Rumiko
Winter by Kora Rumiko
Ballad 1 by Kubota Hanya
The Mirror by Kubota Hanya
A Voice by Kubota Hanya
Clouds by Kuroda Kio
Fantasy Of A Guerilla by Kuroda Kio
Hair by Kuroda Kio
Sleep, Neighbors by Kuroda Saburo
Strangely Fresh by Kuroda Saburo
Three O'clock On An Autumn Afternoon by Kuroda Saburo
The Moon by Kusano Shinpei
Mt. Fuji Poem No. 27 by Kusano Shinpei
Mt. Fuji Poem No. 3 by Kusano Shinpei
Estuary by Makabe Jin
A Mountain Pass by Makabe Jin
On The Damp Climate Of Japan by Makabe Jin
An Ear by Miki Taku
A Family Tree by Miki Taku
In The Evening Sun by Miki Taku
The Blue Tavern by Miyoshi Toyoichiro
Shadow 1 by Miyoshi Toyoichiro
Shadowgraph by Miyoshi Toyoichiro
About Sketching by Murano Shiro
Horizontal Bar: 1. by Murano Shiro
Horizontal Bar: 2. by Murano Shiro
Pole Vault by Murano Shiro
The Candle by Naka Taro
Cityscape by Naka Taro
Decalcomania 2 by Naka Taro
The Moon by Nakae Toshio
Owls by Nakae Toshio
A Song Of Love by Nakae Toshio
At Night by Nakagiri Masao
A Poem For New Year's Eve by Nakagiri Masao
Thanatopsis by Nakagiri Masao
Larme Noire by Nakai Hideo
Music by Nakai Hideo
The White Dog by Nakai Hideo
At Ueno Station by Nakamura Minoru
To See by Nakamura Minoru
Waiting For Dawn by Nakamura Minoru
New Year's Day by Nishiwaki Junzaburo
Shepherd Of Capri by Nishiwaki Junzaburo
The Sun by Nishiwaki Junzaburo
Cat by Ohno Shin
A Holiday by Ohno Shin
Man To Be Blotted Out by Ohno Shin
Eel by Ono Tosaburo
Someone Waiting by Ono Tosaburo
A White Horse by Ono Tosaburo
Dreams Tap On The Roof Like The Footsteps Of Animals by Ooka Makoto
Like Underground Water by Ooka Makoto
To Live by Ooka Makoto
About Love by Osada Hiroshi
Looking For Spring by Osada Hiroshi
Sea Of Many Islands by Osada Hiroshi
Fire by Saga Nobuyuki
The River Of Life by Saga Nobuyuki
A Woman Before Eve by Saga Nobuyuki
A Song Of A Magician by Sekiguchi Atsushi
Song Of The Black Panther by Sekiguchi Atsushi
Ways Of Poetry by Sekiguchi Atsushi
The Child And The Birds by Sekine Hiroshi
Moving Out Of The Room by Sekine Hiroshi
A Serenade by Sekine Hiroshi
The Blind Lion by Shibusawa Takasuke
Landscape With A Seashell by Shibusawa Takasuke
Song by Shibusawa Takasuke
Blowfish by Shimaoka Shin
A Guidepost by Shimaoka Shin
Philosophy Of A Dog by Shimaoka Shin
At The End Of Wilderness by Shindo Ryoko
Chorus by Shindo Ryoko
In A Landscape At Sunset by Shindo Ryoko
Chess by Shinkawa Kazue
A Distant Mirror by Shinkawa Kazue
The Sole by Shinkawa Kazue
Al's Got Into The Saxophone by Shiraishi Kazuko
Male/monkey Story by Shiraishi Kazuko
Nick And Muriel by Shiraishi Kazuko
As It Goes Down by Shono Kokichi
On The Day Of The Typhoon by Shono Kokichi
The Water Dashes by Shono Kokichi
The Earth by Soh Sakon
Grandma by Soh Sakon
Music In Winter by Soh Sakon
A Dark Evening by Sugawara Katsumi
The Last Runner by Sugawara Katsumi
On The Other Side Of The Night by Sugawara Katsumi
Supper by Sugawara Katsumi
Green Wind by Suwa Yu
Landscape by Suwa Yu
Morning In Missouri by Suwa Yu
Luster On The Walls by Suzuki Shiroyasu
A Room Without Walls by Suzuki Shiroyasu
Telescope by Suzuki Shiroyasu
Late Summer by Tada Chimako
Like A Leaf That Falls by Tada Chimako
Odyssey Or On Absence by Tada Chimako
The Beach by Takada Toshiko
Crimson Stone by Takada Toshiko
The Fish by Takada Toshiko
The Dead Boy by Takahashi Mutsuo
I Need Nothing But... by Takahashi Mutsuo
A Night For Valery by Takahashi Mutsuo
In The Distant Sky by Takano Kikuo
Mirror by Takano Kikuo
The Top by Takano Kikuo
The Vines by Takano Kikuo
Hoya by Tamura Ryuichi
Invisible Tree by Tamura Ryuichi
World Without Words by Tamura Ryuichi
Merchant by Tanigawa Gan
A Mill-hand's Diary by Tanigawa Gan
Morning In A Foreign Land by Tanigawa Gan
3,060,000,000 People by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Anonym 4 by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Mother by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Toba 1 by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Just Between Us Two by Tomioka Taeko
My Life Story by Tomioka Taeko
Dinner by Tsuji Yukio
Flowers by Tsuji Yukio
You Come From The Other Side by Tsuji Yukio
Cassowaries by Tsutsumi Seiji
Desert by Tsutsumi Seiji
Quarrel by Tsutsumi Seiji
Night In Assyria by Washisu Shigeo
A Poet's Destiny by Washisu Shigeo
The Prayer Of Judas Iscariot: 1. by Washisu Shigeo
The Prayer Of Judas Iscariot: 2. by Washisu Shigeo
A Sudden Noontime by Watanabe Takenobu
Vacation by Watanabe Takenobu
A Voice, Or A Weekend by Watanabe Takenobu
Dawn by Yamamoto Taro
My Poetry Is Direct by Yamamoto Taro
A Funeral by Yamanoguchi Baku
A Game Nobody Won by Yamanoguchi Baku
A Scene On Okinawa by Yamanoguchi Baku
The Bird by Yasumizu Toshikazu
The Fish by Yasumizu Toshikazu
A Story Of Verbs by Yasumizu Toshikazu
Air Raid by Yoshihara Sachiko
Low Tide by Yoshihara Sachiko
Of Bread by Yoshihara Sachiko
Holding A Phantom Ship Of Asia In My Right Hand by Yoshimasu Gozo
I Will Go Back by Yoshimasu Gozo
The Plain by Yoshimasu Gozo
My Boyhood by Yoshimoto Takaaki
A Song Of Our Self-admonition by Yoshimoto Takaaki
A Song To Be Sung In Summer by Yoshimoto Takaaki
For Nanako by Yoshino Hiroshi
An Honest Question Mark by Yoshino Hiroshi
A Rock by Yoshino Hiroshi
A Hymn by Yoshioka Minoru
In Praise Of The Aged by Yoshioka Minoru
A Picture Of Dry Matrimony by Yoshioka Minoru
A Dirge by Yoshiyuki Rie
A Dream by Yoshiyuki Rie
Moon In The Room by Yoshiyuki Rie
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Booklist:

Copper Canyon's release of Koriyama and Lueders' anthology is a major coup. Such a collection has been long overdue. Few readers have been exposed to, let alone gained a thorough knowledge of, Japanese poetry post-haiku and post^-World War II. A resurgence of haiku translations, particularly those of Sam Hamill and Robert Hass, have deservedly garnered praise and enlightened many a young poet. Still, there have been few collections that fill the chasm from seventeenth-or eighteenth-century Japan to the present. This anthology bridges the gap, in a way, by heightening our awareness about Japanese tradition, modern-day society, and the aftershock of World War II. The collection ranges from lyrical poetry to works influenced by surrealist and symbolist movements, to anarchist and political critique, to mid-twentieth-century nihilism. This great sampling of poets and poetic styles is united here with an excellent, historically based introduction. This book is significant for its comprehensive look at this century through Japanese eyes, for its well-thought-out format, and for the quality and accessibility of the translations. Janet St. John

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1556591039
• ISBN 13: 9781556591037
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350