River of Stars - Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

Akiko Yosano

Shambhala

1997

154 páginas

5h 8m

ISBN-10: 1570621462

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for her exquisite erotic poetry, Akiko's work also championed the causes of feminism, pacifism, and social reform. Akiko's poetry is profoundly direct, often passionate, exposing the complexity of everyday emotions in poetic language stripped of artifice and presenting the full breadth of her poetic vision. Included in this volume are ninety-one of Akiko's tanka (a traditional five-line form of verse) and a dozen of her longer poems written in the modern style.

Resenhas (1)

5 (Perfeito)

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A Wish about Poetry
“Poetry is the sculpture of real feelings.
There is a shadow between line and line
and between stanza and stanza,
a shadow that envelops details
is depth;
in proportion to its depth
let bits of natural flesh
rise to float clearly
on the surface of the lines.
My poetry is clay-work.
The sculpture of real feelings
does not depend upon materials.
Omit, omit!
I would not add anything extra,
even a line.
Let bits of natural flesh
rise to float clearly
on the surface of the lines.”