"An earlier version of the English translation was first published by Katydid Press in 1995."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Blue Women -- Daybreak Leaf Alive -- A Perspective Diagram of Summer -- from Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets (1975). Incantation -- Her Fragrant Flesh, Or How I Met a Madwoman -- Speak Please I Beg You -- from Sad Songs and Blessings (1976). All About the Wind -- Dreaming Sam Francis -- from Spring, to a Virgin (1978). Fruits of Light -- Insects' Dreams -- from Aquapolis, Invisible Town (1981). Chofu I -- Chofu IV -- The Cliffs of London -- Saki's Numazu -- Cerebropolis -- Rhymopolis -- Chofu VIII -- California: Unvoiced Harmonies -- from In Sofu (1984). The Principles of Poetry -- Two Eyes -- The He Called Me -- Life Story -- To Art Museums -- Snow Outside -- Valley Stream Reflects the Mountain Light -- Children's Song -- On Human Life -- from What is Poetry (1985). What is Poetry? #1 -- What is Poetry? #2 -- What is Poetry? #3 -- What is Poetry? #4 -- What is Poetry? #6 -- What is Poetry? #8 -- What is Poetry? #10 -- What is Poetry? #12 -- What is Poetry? #15: The Case of a Star -- What is Poetry? #17: The Case of Rain -- What is Poetry? #21 -- What is Poetry? #24: Rules for Its Creation and Interpretation -- Comrades, the Earth is Cold -- History -- 18 Lines Written in Anger -- Red Plum -- from In Blackest Night, the Vacuum Cleaner of Heaven Is Full Upon Us (1987). Song of the Nuclear Submarine 'Thresher', Its Sexual Sea Passage and Suicide -- Poem for My Children -- Crab Talk -- Back in Tokyo -- Strange Fragment -- Morning Prayer -- In the Style of Goethe -- Autumn Melancholy -- Tokyo Dirge -- Songs for the Four Seasons -- Summer Song -- Autumn Song -- Winter Song -- Spring Song -- from Messages to the Waters of My Hometown (1989). Thus Spoke the Bird of Passage -- The Tale of a Star # 1 -- The Tale of a Star # 2 -- Such Women Where Are You? -- Green Women -- Blue Women -- Original Japanese texts. Original Japanese texts.
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