Long, Long Autumn Nights
Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940
Seiten
1999
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (Verlag)
978-0-939512-94-2 (ISBN)
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (Verlag)
978-0-939512-94-2 (ISBN)
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The first English sampling of the work of a Japanese avant-garde poet who stood for cultural tolerance in a repressive, imperialistic age
In the deepening twilight before World War II, Oguma Hideo cried out against the darkness that was enveloping men’s souls. He died in 1940 at the age of 39, but during his brief lifetime he published some of the most politically powerful poems ever written in Japan. Oguma’s best work displays an empathic vision and breadth of human concern unparalleled in Japanese poetry. He writes from the point of view of Chinese soldiers massacred by the Japanese forces, Ainu hunters trying to preserve their ethnic identity, and Korean grandmothers struggling in vain to preserve Korean culture under Japanese occupation. And, quite unusually for Japanese poets, who have tended to favor the shorter waka and haiku forms, Oguma excels at long poems with an epic-like quality.
In the deepening twilight before World War II, Oguma Hideo cried out against the darkness that was enveloping men’s souls. He died in 1940 at the age of 39, but during his brief lifetime he published some of the most politically powerful poems ever written in Japan. Oguma’s best work displays an empathic vision and breadth of human concern unparalleled in Japanese poetry. He writes from the point of view of Chinese soldiers massacred by the Japanese forces, Ainu hunters trying to preserve their ethnic identity, and Korean grandmothers struggling in vain to preserve Korean culture under Japanese occupation. And, quite unusually for Japanese poets, who have tended to favor the shorter waka and haiku forms, Oguma excels at long poems with an epic-like quality.
David G. Goodman is Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as a scholar and translator of modern Japanese drama and is the editor-translator of many books in Englis
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies |
| Übersetzer | David Goodman |
| Verlagsort | Michigan |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-939512-94-7 / 0939512947 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-939512-94-2 / 9780939512942 |
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