New Selected Poems

Shuntarō Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet since his first collection, Two Billion Light Years of Solitude, in 1952. Unaffected by post-war trauma, Tanikawa embraced language with unmatched energy, earning popularity and critical acclaim for his refusal to compromise with the somber tones prevalent in contemporary Japanese poetry.

This new selection, translated by William I. Ellio...