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Women Poets of Japan

Atsumi, Ikuko(Edited by)Rexroth, Kenneth(Edited by)
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In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets.

Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles,followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets,and including the contemporary school of free verse—Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment.

Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.

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0811208206 / 9780811208208
Paperback / softback
01/02/1982
United States
192 pages
132 x 206 mm, 211 grams
DC Poetry