New Selected Poems Tongo Eisen-Martin

New Selected Poems Tongo Eisen-MartinShuntar Tanikawa Shuntar Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Two Billion Light Years of Solitude (1952), his first book, aged twenty one. Undamaged by Japans post War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has continued running. When in 1968 his first Collected Poems appeared the critics noted at once his popularity and his refusal to compromise with the negative tones that dominated the

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and Tom Raworth

The result is an enduringly powerful

roses in bloom

verrast je en verrijkt je wereld - zeker als je jong bent

Ester Naomi Perquin

he provides an unwhite (and unwhiting) take not only on the things that are but on language as it reaches out to them

And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again

Waarom mag die werkelijkheid worden uitgewist

” Lovers who don’t return

and ultimately imagine a new kind of poem: at once code and confession

“stream-of-consciousness” teasing out a lived physics or philosophy