Bathhouse and Other Tanka Tatsuhiko Ishii
Bathhouse and Other Tanka Tatsuhiko Ishii "Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new…
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Bathhouse and Other Tanka Tatsuhiko Ishii
"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. What was originally a five line 5-7-5-7-7-syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line, constructing his poems out of sequential one-line tankas, as if Basho and Lorca bathed together under the moon. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative contemporary tradition.
"The ocean plane shines in the sun," he writes in one poem in the aftermath of 9/11. In moving elegies to Yukio Mishima and Genji (the Shining Prince), tributes to Ezra Pound and Claude Lorrain, as well as to the volcanoes Popocatpetl and Mount Fuji, Ishii's poetry resonates with a mix of philosophical lyricism, inquisitive exuberance, and homoerotic desire.
Haiku and Tanka Harvest
Bathhouse at Midnight
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Katsuhito Ishii Collection BD
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