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With a beautifully redesigned cover, The American Letters of a
Japanese Parlor Maid is a classic novel that captures a young
immigrant's transition to life in the United States - its
traditions, quirks, frustrations, and glorious delusions.
Accompanied by her uncle, a wealthy industrialist, Morning Glory
arrives in San Francisco via steamship. She eventually makes her
way to New York City, where she becomes interested in the lives of
the working class and decides to test the waters of the American
Dream for herself. Despite her fortunate background, she settles
for a role as a parlor maid. With her abundant wit and humorous
outlook, Morning Glory records in her letters a foreigner's view of
American life. Through her eyes we see the country in a strange new
light, perhaps more truth than fiction.
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1901) is a novel by Yone
Noguchi. Published in New York alongside illustrations by Genjiro
Yeto, the novel was styled as a fascinating tell-all written by a
young Japanese tourist. Composed with the assistance of Leonie
Gilmour and Blanche Partington, The American Diary of a Japanese
Girl was Noguchi's first novel and a major departure from his
poetry at the time. An 18-year-old Japanese woman going by the name
Miss Morning Glory embarks on a journey from her native country to
the United States. Accompanied by her uncle, a wealthy
industrialist, Morning Glory arrives in San Francisco via
steamship. She soon befriends the American wife of a Japanese
diplomat, who introduces her to minstrel shows and vaudeville. Left
to her own devices, Morning Glory takes over a local cigar shop in
Chinatown and begins to assimilate into American life and culture.
When she meets Heine, an older poet from Oakland, Morning Glory is
inspired to pursue a career as a writer. As she travels across the
expansive American landscape with her uncle, she comments on the
people and places she encounters along the way. Through her eyes we
see the country in a strange new light, perhaps more truth than
fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi's The American
Diary of a Japanese Girl is a classic of Japanese American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Seen and Unseen: Or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail (1897) is a
collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Written only three years after
his arrival in San Francisco, these poems capture the emotions of a
young man far from home. Fluent in English and adept with the open,
flowing style of free verse, Noguchi remains unique in his vision
of earthly life. Noguchi's poems are songs of light and shadow, in
tune with animals, seasons, spirits, and complex emotions. His
words are leaves, his thoughts are curtains knocking "with their
shadowy hands" upon his door. His "[p]oetry begins with the
tireless songs of the cricket, on the lean gray haired hill, in
sober-faced evening. / And the next page is Stillness." Alone in a
foreign country, he finds solace in the strange music of nature,
hope in the words he can make of it. He envisions himself asleep in
the depths of a canyon, writing letters that will never arrive,
longing for the crickets to sing. "The homeless snail climbing up
the pillow, stares upon the silvered star-tears on my eyes! [...]
Oh, I am alone! Who knows my to-night's feeling!" He asks, the
homeless snail asks, and his reader longs to answer. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Yone Noguchi's Seen and Unseen: Or, Monologues of a
Homeless Snail is a classic of Japanese American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (1921) is a collection of poems by
Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognizing as a leading poet
in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a
dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination
of national poetries. Alongside a brilliant introduction, in which
he addresses the collective power of world literature, he provides
a selection of his best poems from a quarter century of work. "The
time is coming when, as with international politics where the
understanding of the East with the West is already an unmistakable
fact, the poetries of these two different worlds will approach of
one another and exchange their cordial greetings." A firm believer
in plainspoken language and a practitioner of free verse, Noguchi
envisioned his art as a humble contribution to the union of East
and West. In his early poems written in California, he reflects on
loneliness and the natural world while reveling in the extended
lines and celebratory phrases made popular by Whitman. In his third
collection, From the Eastern Sea (1903) he settles into a more
reserved prosody, characterized by stillness and vibrant imagery.
Included in this collection are his prose poems and a series of
Japanese Hokkus, whose minimalism and spiritual clarity continue to
captivate readers and poets of all languages and nations. "Is there
anything new under the sun? / Certainly there is. / See how a bird
flies, how flowers smile!" These poems not only teach us to look,
but to see the world anew. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi's
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi is a classic of Japanese American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914) is a memoir by Yone Noguchi. Both
a leading modernist poet in English and Japanese and a dedicated
literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national
poetries, Yone Noguchi lived an extraordinary life. In clear prose
and with a confidence earned through decades of dedication to
literature, he tells his own story and reflects on his unique
experiences while illuminating the influential people and places
that shaped him. Noguchi began studying English as a child, and
soon fell in love with the language and its literature. For years,
he dreams of leaving Japan to experience life in the West, and as a
teenager takes the opportunity to move to California. In San
Francisco and Oakland, he encounters a vibrant community of artists
who welcome him into their midst. Under the tutelage of Joaquin
Miller, an older poet and adventurer, he begins to believe in his
own poetic voice, and soon publishes two collections of verse in
English. Over the next several years, he moves to Chicago, New
York, and London, each time increasing his professional connections
and growing surer as a poet. Eventually, he returns to Japan, where
he looks to his roots and becomes a well-regarded critic of poetry
and the dramatic arts. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi's
The Story of Yone Noguchi is a classic of Japanese American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1901) is a novel by Yone
Noguchi. Published in New York alongside illustrations by Genjiro
Yeto, the novel was styled as a fascinating tell-all written by a
young Japanese tourist. Composed with the assistance of Leonie
Gilmour and Blanche Partington, The American Diary of a Japanese
Girl was Noguchi's first novel and a major departure from his
poetry at the time. An 18-year-old Japanese woman going by the name
Miss Morning Glory embarks on a journey from her native country to
the United States. Accompanied by her uncle, a wealthy
industrialist, Morning Glory arrives in San Francisco via
steamship. She soon befriends the American wife of a Japanese
diplomat, who introduces her to minstrel shows and vaudeville. Left
to her own devices, Morning Glory takes over a local cigar shop in
Chinatown and begins to assimilate into American life and culture.
When she meets Heine, an older poet from Oakland, Morning Glory is
inspired to pursue a career as a writer. As she travels across the
expansive American landscape with her uncle, she comments on the
people and places she encounters along the way. Through her eyes we
see the country in a strange new light, perhaps more truth than
fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi's The American
Diary of a Japanese Girl is a classic of Japanese American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
With a beautifully redesigned cover, The American Letters of a
Japanese Parlor Maid is a classic novel that captures a young
immigrant's transition to life in the United States - its
traditions, quirks, frustrations, and glorious delusions.
Accompanied by her uncle, a wealthy industrialist, Morning Glory
arrives in San Francisco via steamship. She eventually makes her
way to New York City, where she becomes interested in the lives of
the working class and decides to test the waters of the American
Dream for herself. Despite her fortunate background, she settles
for a role as a parlor maid. With her abundant wit and humorous
outlook, Morning Glory records in her letters a foreigner's view of
American life. Through her eyes we see the country in a strange new
light, perhaps more truth than fiction.
The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by
Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in
English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a
dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination
of national poetries. His essays on the Noh drama and Hokku poems
influenced Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and countless other
artists from the West. "Not only the English poetry, but any poetry
of any country, is bound to become stale and stupid if it shuts
itself up for too long a time; it must sooner or later be
rejuvenated and enlivened with some new force." For Noguchi, it is
not only educational to immerse oneself in the art of other
cultures, but vital for those cultures to flourish. As a Japanese
poet who excelled with a modern, free verse style of English
poetry, Noguchi advocated for his contemporaries to attempt a
similar radical openness-to possibility, uncertainty, and change.
In these brilliant, instructive essays, he provides his
understanding of the spiritual, otherworldly nature of Japanese
poetry, reflects on the function of silence in the traditional Noh
drama, and praises the lyric essence of Hokku poems. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Yone Noguchi's The Spirit of Japanese Poetry is a
classic of Japanese American literature reimagined for modern
readers.
The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914) is a memoir by Yone Noguchi. Both
a leading modernist poet in English and Japanese and a dedicated
literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national
poetries, Yone Noguchi lived an extraordinary life. In clear prose
and with a confidence earned through decades of dedication to
literature, he tells his own story and reflects on his unique
experiences while illuminating the influential people and places
that shaped him. Noguchi began studying English as a child, and
soon fell in love with the language and its literature. For years,
he dreams of leaving Japan to experience life in the West, and as a
teenager takes the opportunity to move to California. In San
Francisco and Oakland, he encounters a vibrant community of artists
who welcome him into their midst. Under the tutelage of Joaquin
Miller, an older poet and adventurer, he begins to believe in his
own poetic voice, and soon publishes two collections of verse in
English. Over the next several years, he moves to Chicago, New
York, and London, each time increasing his professional connections
and growing surer as a poet. Eventually, he returns to Japan, where
he looks to his roots and becomes a well-regarded critic of poetry
and the dramatic arts. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Yone Noguchi’s
The Story of Yone Noguchi is a classic of Japanese American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
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++++ The Pilgrimage, Volume 1; The Pilgrimage; Yone Noguchi Yone
Noguchi The Valley Press, 1909 English literature; English poetry;
Japanese poetry
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and
1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are
collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition.
The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art,
autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are
edited and introduced by Edward Marx.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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