The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

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Author: Chūya Nakahara

Publisher: Gracewing Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780852442555

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Acclaimed English translation of poems by one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets: Nakahara Chuya. Now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century, influenced by both Symbolism and Dada, he created lyrics renowned for their songlike eloquence, their personal imagery and their poignant charm.

A Paradise of Poets

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Author: Jerome Rothenberg

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780811214278

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A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931(1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry--& through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets ... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing--in the body of the poem." In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature. No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.

Sonic Peace

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Author: Kiriu Minashita

Publisher: Phoneme Media

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781944700409

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"Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed," Kiriu Minashita says in the afterword to Sonic Peace, "the world is being ecstatically eroded by the violent rewriting of meaning." Sonic Peace is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo. Published in Japan in 2005, Sonic Peace won the celebrated Chuya Nakahara Prize in 2006, and solidified Minashita's status as one of the most important critical Japanese voices of her generation.

Rashomon

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Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781976222313

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Turned into a film by Akira Kurosawa, now available for free at archive.org.

The Poems of Nakahara Chuya

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Author: Nakahara Chuya

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781781829660

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Acclaimed English translation of poems by one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets: Nakahara Chuya. Now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century, influenced by both Symbolism and Dada

Book of Haikus

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Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1101664886

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Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.

Pam Ayres - The Works

Pam Ayres - The Works PDF

Author: Pam Ayres

Publisher: Ebury Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846077937

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The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems from the 1970s and 1980s, including The Battery Hen; Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?; Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother; and, of course, Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth. For this new edition Pam has written a general introduction, as well as individual introductions to the poems, many of which are now illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings by Susan Hellard. This is the first time The Works has been available in hardback and is certain to delight Pam's fans of all ages. Pam is one of Britain's best-loved personalities and has been a regular on television and radio for more than 30 yearsmost recently on Just a Minute, The Comedy Quiz, Countdown, and her own series, Ayres on the Air."