Sleeping, Sinning, Falling by Mutsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sato (Translator) - 2001-01-01

City Lights Books, 2001. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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City Lights Books, 1992. Paperback. New. 144 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.50 inches.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Edited and translated by Hiroaki Sato. Wrappers lightly worn, near fine.

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Paperback / softback. New. Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books in English translation. One of them, From the Country of Eight Islands, an anthology of Japanese poetry which he translated and edited with Burton Watson, won the American P.E.N. translation prize for 1982. "Mellifluous voice alone does not, of course, make a poet compelling. I soon found that Takahashi has, among other things, a high sense of drama - the sense that a poem is not something intended for the poet's satisfaction of his inner self alone but for other's partaking as well." -Hiroaki Sato, translator Mutsuo Takahashi, born in 1937, is a Japanese poet, essayist, and writer. He is most well-known for writing about male homoeroticism. His work has won him several literary awards such as Rekitei… Read More