Month: July 2019
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Final Selections from Carter’s Traditional Japanese Poetry
Kyogoku Tamekane. On “Spring Rain,” composed when he held a poem contest at his home On an eveningset aglow with the crimsonof plum blossoms,the willow boughs sway softly;and the spring rain falls. Retired Emperor Fushimi. On “wind in the pines” To avoid getting wetI took cover a momentin the shade of pines–where the rain made […]
Dan Yingst 