Woman Without a Hole ï¿½E& other risky themes from old japanese Poems

Name: Woman Without a Hole ï¿½E& other risky themes from old japanese Poems
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ISBN: 9780974261881

ISBN-10: 0974261882

ISBN-13: 9780974261881

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robin D. Gill, Robin D. Gill, Robin D. Gill

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17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies and Japanese Life and Character in Senryu. Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but only the best that were clean enough to pass the censors. In this anthology, compiled, translated and essayed by Robin D. Gill, like Blyth, a renowned translator of thousands of haiku, we find 1,300 of the senryu (and zappai) that would once have been dangerous to publish. The book is not just an anthology of dirty poems such as Legmans classic Limericks or Burfords delightful Bawdy Verse, but probing essays of thirty…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Paraverse Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.30" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Robin D. Gill, author of the highly acclaimed Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! and Cherry Blossom Epiphany, the largest anthologies of poetry on a single theme ever published, explores the traditional Japanese New Year through 2,000 translated haiku (mostly 17-20c) in this book, the first of a series.