Like a plant, I place my roots, drink in the nutrients of the Japanese language, sprouting leaves, flowers ... children, and ...

Tanikawa diverged from haiku and other traditions, and explored the poetic, not only in the repetitive music of the spoken ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died.

"These tiny kicks felt much sweeter inside my belly than they do right now…against my face." View Entire Post › ...