Shuntaro Tanikawa - A Poet's Japan

Shuntaro Tanikawa is Japan's most widely read and acclaimed poet and has been called one of the world's ‘active poetic volcanoes'. Now aged 88, he continues to be at the cutting edge of modern poetry in Japan, where he has remained ever since his first collection, Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude, was published in 1952.

In the book's prefatory poem, Tanikawa's mentor, Tatsuji Miyoshi, introduced him as a young man who 'has come from a distant land, unexpected

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