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Overview: The three "essays" in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocence.

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