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For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut Takashi Hiraide

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut By Takashi Hiraide

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide


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Summary

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

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut Summary

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide

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.

For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut Reviews

Even in translation, [Hiraide's] fine poetry really shines. At times I am reminded of T.S. Eliot. -- Kenzaburo Oe

About Takashi Hiraide

Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. He currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat and his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano. Sawako Nakayasu is a contemporary poet and translator who was born in Japan. Her translation of Takashi Hiraide's For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut won the Best Translated Book Award (2009) from Three Percent, as well as a PEN Translation Fund Award in 2005.

Additional information

GOR008127026
9780811217484
0811217485
For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide
Used - Very Good
Paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2008-07-28
144
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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