
New Selected Poems
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa(Author)
Carcanet Press Ltd
Published on 29. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-78410-068-1 (ISBN)
Description
Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Alone in Two Billion Light Years (1952), his first book, aged twentyone. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has continued running. When in 1968 his first Collected Poems appeared the critics noted at once his popularity and his refusal to compromise with the negative tones that dominated the poetic palette of contemporary Japan. He has published more than sixty books of poetry, lyrics, prose poems, narratives, epics and satires. He has experimented in form and theme, combining clarity with subtlety. This new selection supplements his original Selected Poems published by Carcanet in 1998.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
285 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-068-1 (9781784100681)
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New Selected Poems
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01/2015
Carcanet Poetry
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SHUNTARO TANIKAWA has produced some sixty books of poetry and won every major Japanese award for his writing. In 1988 an English translation of his work received the American Book Award. He has been translated into fifteen languages. He writes video, radio and film scripts and plays for children. He is the translator of Mother Goose and Peanuts. WILLIAM I. ELLIOT is Professor of English and American Literature at Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama.