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

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

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

Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry