Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. Revised edition of a classic that has sold over 100,000 copies in its Japanese edition. Tanikawa is the preeminent... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book of poems is spoken by 23 children (one poems each), their ages ranging from about 8-13. Both girls and boys are the speakers of the poems.The subects range all across the gamut of pre-teen and early teen experience. The poet himself, while Japan's best-known and most widely-read post-war poet, is also a translator of Mother Goose, Peanuts and children's poems abd stories, and thus has a whimsical side that is evident in some of the poems. et himsel
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