Tag: Takuboku Ishikawa
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* 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]