Naked

by Shuntarō Tanikawa

Book Overview

Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. Revised edition of a classic that has sold over 100,000 copies in its Japanese edition. Tanikawa is the preeminent Japanese poet of his generation. These evocative hymns of childhood sung from the mouth of a child recreate first lies, first loves, first reactions to adults, playmates and secrets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935086226
• ISBN13: 9780935086225
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Saru Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

adult speaks through children for adults

This book of poems is spoken by 23 children (one poems each), their ages ranging from about 8-13. Both girls and boys are the speakers of the poems.The subects range all across the gamut of pre-teen and early teen experience. The poet himself, while Japan's best-known and most widely-read post-war poet, is also a translator of Mother Goose, Peanuts and children's poems abd stories, and thus has a whimsical side that is evident in some of the poems. et himsel