Tag: Takuboku Ishikawa

• * quick post: poems up at Gris-Gris & Oklahoma Review

  Just a quick note to share the latest issue of Gris-Gris, featuring 5 poems of mine.  Check them out here. Two of the poems were inspired by the work of Takuboku Ishikawa, whom I wrote about here earlier this year.  Special thanks to Jay Udall for giving my work a home. I am also happy […]

  José Angel Araguz

  December 30, 2013

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• * jamming with Yosano Akiko

  Around the same time that I read Takuboku Ishikawa (see last week’s post), I also delved into the work of Yosano Akiko – famed tanka poet and friend to Ishikawa. I was so taken up by her work that I couldn’t help but respond to her in several tanka.  Here’s one: she speaks of the […]

  José Angel Araguz

  July 5, 2013

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• * sharing toys with Takuboku Ishikawa

  Tanka are my sad toys. Takuboku Ishikawa Takuboku Ishikawa (1886 – 1912) said the above statement at the end of an essay, explaining how he approached the form with the intimacy of a diary.  They were “sad” because he wrote them while unhappy – they were “toys” because they were useless to society. This outlook […]

  José Angel Araguz

  June 28, 2013

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