A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka, Vol. 1

Review
"This is a stunning treasury of fresh, beautiful poems written by Japanese women alive, amazing, and as various as stars." -June Jordan


Book Description
A thousand years ago women poets at the Japanese imperial court created a written aesthetic of unmatched elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication about romance, family life, and sexuality, and about divorce, loneliness, feminism, politics, and the West. In this landmark anthology of traditional short verse (the haiku and the slightly longer tanka) fifteen contemporary Japanese women poets reveal the changing society that is Japan today. Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award.


Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese


From the Publisher
Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.


About the Author
Leza Lowitz is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Miyuki Aoyama is a poet and translator. Akemi Tomioka teaches American Literature at St. Agnes' Junior College in Osaka.


Buy from Amazon     Compare Prices

Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and universally, human.


Buy from Barnes & Noble     Compare Prices