The Selected Poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa

30 USD

Date

1982

Category

Poetry

Description

Poet and translator Shuntaro Tanikawa was born in Tokyo and came of age in the years following World War II. He once described Japan’s post-war intellectual and creative climate as bleak and existential, with poets turning away from the codes and conventions of traditional verse.

Excerpt

And quite recently they split an atom, And a president’s daughter sang a song… Various things have even happened. Since then. A stone axe among others Lies quiet on the far side of the glass