A long rainy season : Haiku & Tanka
| ISBN: | 1880656159, 9781880656150 |
| OCLC Number: | 475136833 |
| Material Type: | Poetry |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Translator: | Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, Akemi Tomioka |
| Editor: | Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, Akemi Tomioka |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Stone Bridge Press |
| Publication Place: | Berkeley, CA |
| English Publication Date: | 1994 |
| Notes: | Illustrations by Robert Kushner. |
| Related: | Contemporary Japanese women's poetry ; 1 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Subjects: | Haiku Japanese poetry, Translations into English Waka |