Women poets of Japan
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Women poets of Japan
（A New Directions paperbook, NDP527）
Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Co., 1982, c1977
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Burning heart
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Previously published as: The Burning heart. 1977
"A New Directions book."
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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.
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