Sleeping, Sinning, Falling

By: Mutsuo Takahashi, Hiroaki Sato (Translator)

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Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books in English translation. One of them, From the Country of Eight Islands, an anthology of Japanese poetry which he translated and edited with Burton Watson, won the American P.E.N. translation prize for 1982. "Mellifluous voice alone does not, of course, make a poet compelling. I soon found that Takahashi has, among other things, a high sense of drama - the sense that a poem is not something intended for the poet's satisfaction of his inner self alone but for other's partaking as well." -Hiroaki Sato, translator Mutsuo Takahashi, born in 1937, is a Japanese poet, essayist, and writer. He is most well-known for writing about male homoeroticism. His work has won him several literary awards such as Rekitei Prize, Yomiuri Literary Prize, Takami Jun Prize, Modern Poetry Hanatsubaki Prize, and the Kunsho award. Hiroaki Sato, born in 1942, is a Japanese poet and translator who frequently wrote for The Japan Times.

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Preface	p. 1
Sleeping, Sinning, Falling	p. 5
from A Bunch of Keys	p. 37
Winter Eros	p. 39
Three Curses for Those to be Born	p. 40
We Are Dead	p. 43
Pythagoras Beans	p. 46
The Day of Fire	p. 50
An Ambiguous Portrait Based on Quotations from Eight People	p. 52
On the Reality of a Pot	p. 56
from Prism	p. 61
We, the Zipangu People	p. 63
If You Are to Discuss the Eyes	p. 64
Two Exchanges on L'objet d'art, Shoes	p. 67
Table Manners	p. 69
Blind Day	p. 72
Following the Key Words	p. 74
Ah, Oh	p. 77
Epitaph for the Poet Himself	p. 79
Declaration of Love for Dolls	p. 80
from The Garden of Rabbits	p. 83
The Garden	p. 85
A Study of Weeds	p. 86
Anti-Angelico	p. 88
Monkey-Eaters	p. 89
Echo	p. 90
The Bad Rabbit	p. 91
On the Beach	p. 93
A Sketch for "Traveling Man"	p. 94
Rhetorica	p. 98
Three Poems	p. 99
The Invisible Book	p. 101
A Tale of Three Cities	p. 103
Lessons of the Sand	p. 105
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