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The modern fable / Nishiwaki Junzaburō ; translated from the Japanese with an introduction by Hiroaki Sato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nishiwaki, Junzaburō, 1894-1982.
- Series:
- Marjorie G. Perloff series of international poetry
- The Marjorie G. Perloff series of international poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Nishiwaki, Junzaburō, 1894-1982--Translations into English.
- Nishiwaki, Junzaburō.
- Nishiwaki, Junzaburō, 1894-1982.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages ; 16 cm.
- Edition:
- First Green Integer edition.
- Place of Publication:
- København [Denmark] ; Los Angeles [Calif.] : Green Integer ; Saint Paul, Minn. : Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2007.
- Summary:
- One of the most important Japanese poets of the period between 1930 and 1960, Nishiwaki revolutionized the poetry of Japan, introducing surrealism into his work. This translation, by Hiroaki Sato, is Nishiwaki's masterpiece of 1953.
- Contents:
- Ambarvalia
- Fine Weather
- Shepherd in Capri
- Rain
- Violet
- Hand
- The Eyes
- The Plate
- Chestnut Leaves
- Elegy
- Love Song
- Traveler
- Cup's Primitivism
- Hairdressing
- Ceylon
- A Man Who Reads Omeros
- No Traveller Returns
- The Modern Fable
- Katherine
- Ann Veronica
- The Winter Day
- Autumn
- The Autumn Photo
- Bitterness of the Plum
- Men in Nanga Paintings
- (for Matisse's sketch)
- Transience
- Winter Day
- Haws
- For a Memory of Man
- Porcelain
- Afternoon Visit
- Far Down the Koshu Road
- Mountain Liquor
- Atalanta's Calydon
- Sorrow
- Clay
- Nara
- January
- Loquat
- The Road
- May
- Winter Conversation
- From Summer to Autumn
- Poem
- Flowers and Caterpillars
- The Way to the Lighthouse
- Stripping of Iphigenia
- Not Home
- Prothalamion
- Decorations
- Travelogue
- Esthetique Foraigne
- The Third Myth
- Boars
- Slumber of a Gem
- Photograph
- Walnut Tree
- Bowls
- Woodcutter
- Eggplant
- Slope
- Broadax
- For Memories
- Plum
- Afternoon by a Cliff
- Meditation in a Bar
- Hometown of the Clouds
- Book of Rites
- Rome
- The Eye in the Twilight
- Narcissi
- Evening on the Slope
- Yuan
- Cummings
- Pastoral Melancholy (Elegy)
- Autumn in Olympus
- Pheasant
- In an Abandoned Garden
- Sad
- (Autumn Song)
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "157"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nishiwaki, Junzaburō, 1894-1982. Poems. English. Selections. Modern fable.
- ISBN:
- 9781933382661
- 193338266X
- OCLC:
- 144518936
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