Far Beyond the Field Haiku by Japanese Women an Anthology
- List Price: $115.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/2003
Description:
The only collection of haiku by Japanese women, this volume includes translations of 400 haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century (Bashos school) to the second half of the twentieth. By reading chronologically, the reader comes away with an overview of the way in which this seventeen-syllable form has established itself from its inception to the present. For each poet, Ueda provides a brief biographical and critical headnote, followed by twenty haiku for each. This collection goes a long way toward countering the marginalization of the women writers of Japan.
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