A review by jwang194
River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko by Yosano Akiko

4.0

such a pretty collection of poems. the rush of nature motifs subsumes the human moments in a way that folds us people back into the natural world. yosano sometimes slips into soggy sentiment, but overall i really enjoyed these poems! despite coming to “modern” poetry later in life, yosano writes longer poems with just as much flair as she does tanka, and the structural freedom gives her more room to expand interesting moments in detail.