Mad in translation
Subtitle: a thousand years of kyōka, comic Japanese poetry in the classic waka mode
By: [compiled, translated and essayed by] Robin D. Gill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Paraverse Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Key Biscayne, Fla.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 733
ISBN-13: 9780974261874
Subjects: Kyōka; Translations into English; History and criticism; Japanese poetry; Japanese wit and humor; Edo period
Other titles: Kyōka, comic Japanese poetry in the classic waka mode
Description: Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included.--amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 648-663) and indexes.

Essays and discussions of poems in English; poems in English and Japanese (both romanized and characters).