Wild Lines and Poetic Travels

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels
Author: Doug Slaymaker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793607583

This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry have been shortlisted for a range of poetry prizes, and he was awarded the 2011 Yomiuri Shinbun Prize for Travel writing. He has translated dozens of books and has authored or co-authored more than fifteen other books across various genres. He is, by his own introduction, a poet first, but is also a prolific book reviewer, an astute theorist, and an insightful critic. His presence and contributions have been profound in many countries around the globe.

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels
Author: Doug Slaymaker
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781793607591

This volume brings together an international group of scholars, artists, and translators to analyze Suga Keijiro's multifaceted work.

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels

Wild Lines and Poetic Travels
Author: Doug Slaymaker
Publisher: New Studies in Modern Japan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781793607577

This volume brings together an international group of scholars, artists, and translators to analyze Suga Keijiro's multifaceted work.

Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan

Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan
Author: Saeko Kimura
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-09-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793605378

This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome

A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome
Author: Kathryn M. Lucchese
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2024-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1666962066

Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream presents a nuanced history of the Keicho Mission (1613-1620), a little-known embassy sent to Europe by Masamune Date, the wealthy and ambitious Lord of Oshu (northeastern Japan) seeking to establish trade and cultural ties with Spain and the Roman Catholic Church. Kathryn M. Lucchese describes how the Mission crossed the Pacific, New Spain, and the Atlantic, toured Spain and Italy and paraded in triumph across Rome before making the long return to Sendai. Though its full success was doomed by unfriendly forces in Europe and unfolding policies in Japan, the Mission did open a brief period of trade with New Spain and earned papal support for a Diocese of Japan, leaving traces of its passing in the form of Japanese settlers in Spain and Mexico and the cosmopolitan soul of modern Sendai.

Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan

Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan
Author: Michael Alan Thornton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1793641900

This book examines early modern Mito, today an ordinary provincial capital on the outskirts of the Tokyo commuter belt, but once the headquarters of Mito Domain, one of the most consequential places in all of Japan. As one of just three senior branches of the Tokugawa family—which ruled over Japan for 260 years—Mito’s ruling family enjoyed unparalleled status and exerted enormous influence throughout its history. In the seventeenth century, its scholars produced some of early modern Japan’s most important historical scholarship. In the eighteenth century, it developed a robust and pragmatic program of reform to confront depopulation and foreign threats. In the nineteenth century, it became the birthplace of a revolutionary ideology that transformed Japan into a modern, imperial nation. The power of these ideas swept across Japan, inspiring activists everywhere to take up the cause of building a new nation—but they also devastated Mito, leading to a brutal civil war that scarred its people for generations. This book complements existing studies of Mito’s ideas by focusing on the history of Mito as a place and telling the stories of Mito’s politicians, reformers, and ordinary people from the beginning of the domain’s history to its end.

Love and Other Poems

Love and Other Poems
Author: Alex Dimitrov
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 161932234X

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.

The Wild Iris

The Wild Iris
Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0063117649

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Pulitzer Prize From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume 2

Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature. Volume 2
Author: Boris Stojkovski
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 6158179353

Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.