Takuboku: Poems to Eat

by Carl Sesar

Takuboku Ishikawa (石川 啄木 Ishikawa Takuboku?, February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis. Well known as both a tanka and "modern-style" or "free-style" poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism. Ishikawa wrote some his diaries in the Latin script transliteration of Japanese so that his wife could not read them.

168 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1966