On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku by Tamae K. Prindle, Takuboku Ishikawa

On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku

Tamae K. Prindle, Takuboku Ishikawa

142 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

poetry reflective slow-paced

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At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan's ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning with poems rich in childhood sorrow ...

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