{"product_id":"asking-myself-answering-myself-poems-by-shimpei-kusano-paperback","title":"Asking Myself, Answering Myself: Poems by Shimpei Kusano - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShimpei Kusano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1903, Shimpei Kusano has long been among Japan's best-loved poets. \u003cem\u003eAsking Myself\/ Answering Myself\u003c\/em\u003e introduces him to a wide American audience, with selections from over half a century of his work, in translation by Cid Corman. There is scarcely a child (or an adult) in Japan unfamiliar with Kusano's frogs. Their trills, transcribed and fancifully translated by the poet into frog soliloquies, dirges (\"Lululu's Funeral\" to be accompanied by Chopin's \"Funeral March\"), and celebrations are, says Corman, \"figures of nature--in its largest sense--and of absolute innocence ... . They mock our pretentions but share them too--gently.\" Witty, lyrical, vigorous, Kusano is a poet of praise--for the savor of snake-liver sake or crunchy raw potatoes, the hissing night sea, a changing sky: \"O half a sun now.\/ mightiest member of the universe.\/blind my two upstanding eyes with a whack of light.\" Kusano has traveled widely, and Cantonese as well as the English he studied during his years in China still find their way into his poems. In 1935, he and friends founded Rekitei (\"Historical Process\"), a monthly magazine out of which grew a poetry group with over a thousand members--now the largest in Japan. Head and heart of the Rekitei group, Shimpei Kusano is still writing, giving readings, and promoting other poets as well as haunting Gaku (\"School\"), his famous little bar in downtown Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Orient, principally India, China, and Japan, has managed somehow through the hard-won intelligence of a few tough souls to come to a sense of scale, that makes sense, that casts man into his minimality in the face of the geography of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 7.95 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 1984\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726440558899,"sku":"9780811208871","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aVVZeTFDcEhYVWEyN2hnZk1iRUYvZz09.webp?v=1763737219","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/asking-myself-answering-myself-poems-by-shimpei-kusano-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}