japanese poetry

Celebrates everyday things in poems which demonstrate the haiku and lantern forms.

Presents a collection of fifteen verses in English, Japanese script, and Romanized form. Accompanied by an audio CD with rhymes in both English and Japanese.

A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.

"Once called "the Marinetti of Japan" by David Burliuk, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry, criticism, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde poetry, his aggressive experimentation with speed, spatialization, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre-war Japan. Spiral Staircase is the first definitive volume of Renkichi's poems to appear in English. With an introduction by Sho Sugita and an afterword by Eric Selland."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/09/2017).

Poems from Japanese anthologies. Includes individual poets with textual and biographical notes.

A collection of haiku by seventeenth-century Japanese writer Matsuo Bash?, with literal translations into English and an overview of the poetic form and its emphasis on nature as a theme and extensive notes on the allusions and references of each piece.

A brief biography of Japanese children's poet Misuzu Kaneko. Includes a selection of her poems in English and Japanese.

A collection of haiku or "poems of seventeen syllables (in the original Japanese) in three lines... The verses here follow a day of spring from the early-morning admonition to a careless grasshopper to the glowing goodnight of a firefly." Publisher's note.

Offers a translation of Kobayashi Issa's autobiographical "The Spring of My Life" and includes 160 additional haiku presented in both English and Japanese.