Festival in my heart Poems by Japanese children
Festival in my heart Poems by Japanese children
H.N. Abrams
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by Bruno Navasky
The title page of this lavish assemblage of Japanese art and children's poems is aptly adorned with a reproduction of Tosa Mitsuoki's Edo-period screen painting of an exquisite tree from which hang scrolls of poems like delicate gold-powdered ribbons. A treasury of Japanese ink paintings, woodblock prints, textiles and sculptures represent various periods and techniques, both ancient and modern--rather grand accompaniments to the poems, which were written by Japanese schoolchildren and originally selected and published by poet Kawasaki Hiroshi in a leading Japanese newspaper. Many of the poems seem chosen more for cuteness than for craft: ``Hey mom-- /Do you know why I was born? I wanted to meet you, mom, / so I got born.'' Occasionally, however, the poems surprise and delight with effective imagery and reflective perceptions about activities, nature and families: ``One plus one / is two. / Mother plus father / is me. / Moon / plus stars / is sky.'' If not as strong overall as its predecessor, Charles Sullivan's Imaginary Gardens , the volume offers a welcome introduction to a foreign culture that will, like Mitsuoki's cherry blossoms, ``scatter / through people's hearts.''
Condition: New
Format: Hardcover
Published:
Pages / Size: 120p, 22.86 x 1.91 x 26.04 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 9780810933149
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