Forest of Eyes : Selected Poems of Tada Chimako / Tada/Angles; ed. by Jeffrey Angles, Chimako Tada, Jeffrey Angles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tada/Angles, Author.

Contributor:

Angles, Jeffrey, Editor.

Tada, Chimako, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.) : 1 b/w photograph

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of Japan's most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930-2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, frequently surreal poetry and fantastic imagery. Although Tada's writing is an essential part of postwar Japanese poetry, her use of themes and motifs from European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean history, mythology, and literature, as well as her sensitive explorations of women's inner lives make her very much a poet of the world. Forest of Eyes offers English-language readers their first opportunity to read a wide selection from Tada's extraordinary oeuvre, including nontraditional free verse, poems in the traditional forms of tanka and haiku, and prose poems. Translator Jeffrey Angles introduces this collection with an incisive essay that situates Tada as a poet, explores her unique style, and analyzes her contribution to the representation of women in postwar Japanese literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translators Acknowledgments

Note on the Translation

Introduction

From Fireworks (1956)

From The Gladiators Arena (1960)

From The Town of Mirrors, or Forest of Eyes (1968)

From A False Record of Ages (1971)

From The Four-Faced Path (1975)

From A Spray of Water: Tanka (1975)

From Lotophagi (1980)

From Ceremonial Fire (1986)

From Along the Riverbank (1998)

From The Land of the Long River (2000)

From A Souvenir of Wind: Haiku (2003)

From Upon Breaking the Seal (2004)

From Person of the Playful Star: Tanka (2005)

Translators Notes

Chronology

Selected Works

Credits

Index of Titles and First Lines

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35264-5

OCLC:

1408681754