Tag Archives: Japanese poetry

Book Announcement: Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijro Suga Reader

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Paula

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader Edited by Doug Slaymaker This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga’s works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

Posted on December 5, 2021 by Paula

Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyō Translated by Meredith McKinney Clear and clearer with the moon the heart swells widening out toward what distant end I know not A fresh translation of the classical Buddhist poetry of … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Penguin Book of Haiku

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Paula

The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, … Continue reading →

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