On Lost Sheep

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Author: Shiro Murano Translator: Goro Takano Publisher: Tinfish Press (2017) Shiro Murano (1901-1975) was a Japanese Modernist poet, influenced by other poets from Basho to Rilke t o T.S. Eliot. His poems fulfill Eliot's edict against personality, as they come at stark issues like death in non-autobiographical form. And yet there's tenderness here, where, "A poet's heart / [is] something like a dove / Still, under the branch / Something uncanny and alarming." This is Murano's first full-length book in English. Show more