Bathhouse and Other Tanka witch and information networks

and information networks

Met bundels als Air Stream Land Yacht en Methodist Hatchet (Griffin Poetry Prize 2012) maakte de Canadese Ken Babstock al furore in de Engelstalige poëziewereld

Shari Van Goethem

'Extraordinary

that celebrates the carnal life

Bathhouse and Other Tanka witch and information networksTatsuhiko Ishii (trans. Hiroaki Sato) 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 innovative contemporary tradition. What was originally a five line 5 7 5 7 7 syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line,