Poems of Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki ranging from the extended sequence

ranging from the extended sequence Persephone at 40 to a piercing series of poems about the death of White’s mother

After living for three years in New Zealand

travels to the July 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference to encounter some of the giants of The New American Poetry 1945-1960 and after (Creeley

Translated from the Burmese and introduced by Violet Cho & David Gilbert

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Poems of Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki ranging from the extended sequenceThis first volume in Vagabonds Asia Pacific Poetry Series brings together a selection of poetry from three key contemporary Japanese poets Masayo Koike, Shuntaro Tanikawa & Rin Ishigaki translated by Leith Morton and introduced by Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, with cover art by Ikumi Nakaya. Masayo Koike was born in Tokyo in 1959 and graduated from the International Relations Department of Tsuda Juku College in Tokyo. Her first published book of verse was Mizu