num_pages: 148
description: Shuntaro Tanikawa is the most popular poet in Japan today, respected by literary critics and general readers alike. For his edition Harold Wright has worked directly with Mr. Tanikawa to fashion precise and elegant translations of his most representative and significant poems from throughout his career.Born in Tokyo in 1931, Tanikawa was profoundly influenced by the cultural disruption of Japan caused by the Second World War. During the air raids on Tokyo in 1945, Tanikawa toured the city on bicycle, viewing firsthand its destruction. After the war Tanikawa found Japan's own poetic tradition insufficient to sustain the demands of new poetic forms and attitudes reflecting the modern experience. He remarked that, "after the defeat, all the values that the Japanese believed in where totally destroyed." [from book jacket]
language: English
title: The Selected Poems
titlecomplete: The Selected Poems
genres: Japanese Literature, Japan, Poetry
ratings_count: 81
publisher: North Point Pr