For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut
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- ISBN 9780811217484
- Weight: 166g
- Dimensions: 168 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2008
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, Kitakyushu in 1950. He has published numerous books of poetry as well as several books of genre-bending essays, including one on poetics and baseball. He currently lives in the west suburbs of Tokyo with a cat and his wife, the poet Michiyo Kawano. Sawako Nakayasu is a contemporary poet and translator who was born in Japan. Her translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut won the Best Translated Book Award (2009) from Three Percent, as well as a PEN Translation Fund Award in 2005.
