Post-war Japanese Poetry -

Harry Guest, Lynn Guest, Kajima Shozo

Penguin Books

1972

176 páginas

5h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780140421453

After the destruction left by the Pacific war (1945), Japan's poets were stunned, demoralised and left coming to terms with the shock of total defeat. The first poets to raise their heads in this bleak period, had to look hard at what they saw and along with their nation reinvent themselves.