Women poets of Japan

Author(s)

• Rexroth, Kenneth
• 渥美, 育子 アツミ, イクコ

Bibliographic Information

Women poets of Japan

translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi

（A New Directions paperbook, NDP527）

Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Co., 1982, c1977

• : pbk

Other Title

Burning heart

Note

Previously published as: The Burning heart. 1977

"A New Directions book."

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles,followed by haiku poets of the Tokugawa period (to 1867), the subsequent modern tanka and haiku poets,and including the contemporary school of free verse-Women Poets of Japan records twelve hundred years of poetic accomplishment. Included are biographical notes on the individual poets, an essay on Japanese women and literature, and a table of historical periods.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA1136084X
• ISBN:
  • 0811208206
• LCCN: 81018693
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 184 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL782.E3
  • DC19 : 895.6/1/00809287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japanese poetry -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : English poetry -- Translations from Japanese
  • LCSH : Japanese poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00345403