Name: The Iceland
ISBN: 9780811221603

The Iceland

Sakutaro Hagiwara

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Hagiwara writes in the preface: "The author's past life was that of a disconsolate iceberg that drifts and flows in the extreme regions of the northern seas. Looking at the phantom-like auroras from various spots of the iceberg, he yearned, suffered, rejoiced, sorrowed, at times getting angry with himself, as he wandered on vainly with the tides.... Above his heart were always the disconsolate clouded skies of the extreme regions, the soul-ripping winds of the Iceland howling, screaming. He wrote all that painful life and the diary of a real person in these poems."

Book Details

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: Jun 25th, 2014
Pages: 64
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.70in - 5.80in - 0.30in - 0.17lb
EAN: 9780811221603
Categories: • General• Asian - General

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About the Author

Sato, Hiroaki: - Hiroaki Sato is a poet, translator, and journalist, as well as an adjunct professor at UMASS Amherst. The winner of the PEN translation prize and the former president of the Haiku Society of America, he also translated The Sword and the Mind, published by Overlook. He lives in New York City.

Hagiwara, Sakutaro: - Sakutaro Hagiwara (1886-1942) is a seminal figure in modern Japanese literature who broke traditional poetic forms in favor of a free verse style that mixed literary and everyday diction with intense imagery, deep philosophy, and verbal distortions.

Sato, Hiroaki: - Hiroaki Sato was born of Japanese parents in Taiwan in 1942; his family fled back to Japan at the end of WWII, and in 1968 he moved to New York, where he has lived ever since. He is the translator of many volumes of Japanese poetry and literature. The president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981, Sato received the America PEN translation prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Prize twice. He is the author of the books Legends of the Samurai, Snow in a Silver Bowl, and One Hundred Frogs, and from 2000 to 2017 wrote the monthly column "View from New York" for The Japan Times. New Directions also publishes his translation of The Iceland by Sakutaro Hagiwara.

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