¡Sugoi Shijin No Monogatari Yamanokuchi Baku Shibun Shu Jinsei Wo
¡Yamanokuchi Baku / Cho
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[Machine Translation] Yamanokuchi Baku ( 1903 -1963 ). He is one of the most famous Okinawan-born poets of the modern and contemporary era. He wrote his poems in the depths of poverty, leaving only 198 poems in his 40-odd years as a poet. Most of Baku's poems are about his own life, which can be roughly divided into two periods: the early period when he was a bachelor living a vagabond life with no fixed address, and the later period when he wrote new stories of poverty with a wife and children on his back. This anthology is composed of five chapters: "No fixed address," "Marriage and Life," "Okinawa, My Homeland," "War Satire," and "Poems That Became Songs. The first part, "Shodo-shite" is from the first half of the collection, while "Marriage and Life" is from the second half, and forms the backbone of the book. The following "Hometown Okinawa" is a work that reflects on the pain of his hometown after the war, "War Satire" is a collection of poignant criticisms on the war by Baku, who is also known as a satiric poet, and "Poem that Became a Song" is a collection of poems written by folk singer Wataru Takada. It was included on the CD "Singing the Poet Yamanokuchi Baku", a tribute album released in 1988 by the folk singer Wataru Takada. Compared to existing anthologies of Baku's works, this volume contains a larger number of poems and features a beautiful layout that carefully treats each poem individually. This book also includes the poetic essay "What is Poetry?" and three autobiographical novels describing the background of the poems "Conclusion with a Nose" and "Tatami", which are his masterpieces.
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