For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (Paperback)

Winner of a PEN Translation Fund Award: A lyrical, supercharged, dizzying collection in a unique bilingual format: like two halves of the walnut, the English text meets the Japanese half way.
"The radiant subway. The wall that clears up, endless. A thundering prayer of steel that fastens together the days, a brush of cloud hanging upon it, O beginning, it is there--your nest." Thus the keynotes of Hiraide's utterly original book-length poem unfold--a mix of narrative, autobiography, minute scientific observations, poetics, rhetorical experiments, hyper-realistic images, and playful linguistic subversions--all scored with the precision of a mathematical-musical structure.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	June 2008
Authors:	Takashi Hiraide
Translators:	Sawako Nakayasu
Dimensions:	165 x 168 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1748-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-8112-1748-5
Barcode:	9780811217484

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