Bathhouse and Other Tanka PB_Gift_Guide New York Public Library's #4

New York Public Library's #4 book on the list of "Top Check-Outs of All Time"

whose circle included the likes of Voltaire

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his grandchildren

Bathhouse and Other Tanka PB_Gift_Guide New York Public Library's #4The first US publication by the legendary tanka master of love, homoerotic desire, and destruction. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being, writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own