This collection of modern Japanese poetry presents carefully selected works for Western readers. The state of Japanese poetry in the twentieth century, its high

This much-praised collection features works by forty-nine acclaimed modern poets skilled in the styles of colloquial free verse, modern tanka, and haiku.

Though the prose poem came into existence as a principally French literary genre in the nineteenth century, it occupies a place of considerable importance in tw

This remarkable anthology features 101 modern Japanese poems by 55 poets, including Shuntarō Tanikawa, Minoru Yoshioka, Taeko Tomioka, Nobuo Ayukawa, Tarō

His introduction gives an excellent overview of the development of tanka in the last one hundred years.