Poet Shuntaro Tanikawa's hymns of childhood re-create the world of first lies, first loves, piano lessons, parents, relatives, playmates, and secrets. With precocious truthfulness, they offer a sense of wonder and foreboding. What does the child know that adults have forgotten, and what has the poet/adult determined to relive in bittersweet recollection? These poems surprise, delight, and disturb as they ramble through time and experiences familiar to all of us who grow old into wisdom.
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"Unpretentious lyricism at its most intense." -Japan Times -- -Japan Times
"Unpretentious lyricism at its most intense." -Japan Times -- Review
"Unpretentious lyricism at its most intense." -Japan Times -- Review
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Text: English, Japanese (translation)
Original Language: Japanese
Original Language: Japanese
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adult speaks through children for adults,
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This review is from: Naked (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature) (Paperback)
This book of poems is spoken by 23 children (one poems each), their ages ranging from about 8-13. Both girls and boys are the speakers of the poems.The subects range all across the gamut of pre-teen and early teen experience. The poet himself, while Japan's best-known and most widely-read post-war poet, is also a translator of Mother Goose, Peanuts and children's poems abd stories, and thus has a whimsical side that is evident in some of the poems. et himsel
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I have to go now, right now, but don't know where. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mother Goose (Kodansha Bilingual Books, 7) (Japanese and English Edition) by S Tanigawa in Back Matter
- Floating the River in Melancholy by Shuntaro Tanikawa in Back Matter
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