This bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context for their achievement, while each poet's work is prefaced with notes on his/her life and career.
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Winner of Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature 2019 (United States). Short-listed for Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 2020 (United States).
Takako Lento and W. S. Merwin's collaborative translation of Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson (2013) won the 2013-14 Japan-US Friendship Prize in Translation. Her recent publications include The Art of Being Alone and Tamura Ryuichi.
