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Love Poems from the Japanese
Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources—including the imperial collections of the Manyoshu and Kokinshu—the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japanese tradition. The poems range in tone from the spiritual longing of an isolated monk to the erotic ecstasy of a court princess—but share the extraordinary simplicity and luminosity...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
January 28th 2003
by Shambhala
(first published 1994)
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you say,"i will come."
and you do not come.
now you say,"i will not come."
so i shall expect you.
have i learned to understand you?
and you do not come.
now you say,"i will not come."
so i shall expect you.
have i learned to understand you?
Oct 15, 2009
Enoch Page
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Very sensuous haiku and other short forms. not just sensual, but an aire of philosophy about it. Some spoken from the male viewpoint which is why I wanted it, but most pieces voice the female viewpoint, which also is quite beautiful. Most is arousing and shifts fluidly from sweet to seductively enticing and sometimes a few can be despairing or even enraging.
I love Rexroth, and think his translations are lovely. This compilation, though, like many Shambhala editions, is a little on the cutesy side.
Plus it has a number of the Marichiko poems in it, which seems a little odd since... you know... Marichiko=Rexroth=Marichiko. Though I still love Love Poems of Marichiko as an integral work.
Plus it has a number of the Marichiko poems in it, which seems a little odd since... you know... Marichiko=Rexroth=Marichiko. Though I still love Love Poems of Marichiko as an integral work.
Absolutely beautiful book of poems, many of them over one thousand years old. It has everything I associate w/ Japanese poetry: nature, sly humor, simplicity, plus a melancholy sense of the passage of time. Lots of frankly erotic work in here, most delightful. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in poetry.
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A pocket sized collection of some steamy and heart felt poems, mostly tanka. Very lovely. I appreciated the introduction with the notes on tanka since I was more familiar with haiku.
Exquisite.
Can't seem to stop rereading these poems marvelling at their very existence.
I've put them away for a while tho.
I've put them away for a while tho.
Actually trans. and selected by Kenneth Rexroth, whom I adore.
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