Ode to Stone

by Shiro Hara

Coming from the country where short, concise poetry is celebrated, Hara Shiro's Ode to Stone is an unusually lengthy contribution to modern Japanese poetry. A recent winner of the Gendai Shijin Sho, this poem is regarded by some as having an epic quality that rivals some the great poetry of the twentieth-century West. The "narrator," stone, takes us to locations as diverse as Nagasaki, Paris, and Cairo, and to various times in history. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093965752X
• ISBN13: 9780939657520
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher