For Fighting Spirit Of Walnut Pa
, by Hiraide,TakashiNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780811217484 | 0811217485
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/17/2008
Winner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the English text meets the Japanese half way. The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A thundering prayer of steel that fastens together the days, a brush of cloud hanging upon it, O beginning, it is there--your nest.Thus the keynotes of Hiraide's utterly original book-length poem unfold--a mix of narrative, autobiography, minute scientific observations, poetics, rhetorical experiments, hyper-realistic images, and playful linguistic subversions--all scored with the precision of a mathematical-musical structure.