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Renshi
is a form of collaborative poetry pioneered by Makoto Ōoka in the 1980s.The Japan Foundation's profile of Makoto Ōoka It is a development of traditional Japanese renga and renku, but unlike these it does not adhere to traditional strictures on length, rhythm, and diction. Renshi are typically composed by a group of Japanese and foreign poets collaborating in the writing process in sessions lasting several days.Look Japan: Volume 48, Issues 553–564. 2002, p4 In addition to Ooka, poets who have participated in renshi include James Lasdun, Charles Tomlinson, Hiromi Itō, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Jerome Rothenberg, Joseph Stanton, Wing Tek Lum, Karin Kiwus Karin Kiwus (born 9 November 1942) is a German poet from Berlin. After studying journalism, German studies and politology she worked as an editor as well as a university teacher in Austin, Texas. She was the domestic partner of the German film ... and Mikirō Sasaki. Notes {{Authority control Japanese poetry Collabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuntarō Tanikawa
(born December 15, 1931 in Tokyo City, Japan) is a Japanese poet and translator. He is one of the most widely read and highly regarded of living Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad, and a frequent subject of speculations regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature. Several of his collections, including his selected works, have been translated into English, and his ''Floating the River in Melancholy'', translated by William I. Eliott and Kazuo Kawamura, won the American Book Award in 1989. Tanikawa has written more than 60 books of poetry in addition to translating Charles Schulz's ''Peanuts'' and the Mother Goose rhymes into Japanese. He was nominated for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Award for his contributions to children's literature. He also helped translate ''Swimmy'' by Leo Lionni into Japanese. Among his contributions to less conventional art genres is his open video correspondence with Shūji Terayama (''Video Letter'', 1983). Since the 1970s Tanikawa also provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Stanton
Joseph Stanton is a Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a widely published poet. His poems have appeared in ''Poetry, Poetry East, Harvard Review, Ekphrasis, New York Quarterly'', and many other journals and anthologies. Biography Joseph Charles Stanton, born February 4, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a poet and a scholar who teaches art history and American studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he is a professor. He has published extensively on Visual art of the United States, American art, literature, and culture. One of his special areas of work concerns the intersection of the visual and literary arts. His essays on image-word topics have been appeared in such journals as ''Art Criticism, American Art (journal), American Art, Journal of American Culture, Harvard Library Bulletin, The Lion and the Unicorn (journal), The Lion and the Unicorn, Soundings, Children’s Literature'', and ''Michigan Quarterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wing Tek Lum
Wing Tek Lum (Chinese: 林永得; born November 11, 1946 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American poet. Together with a brother he also manages a family-owned real estate company, Lum Yip Kee, Ltd. Life He graduated from Brown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering. He edited the university’s literary magazine. He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary, with a master's degree in divinity in 1973. He worked as a social worker, and met Frank Chin. In 1973, he moved to Hong Kong to learn Cantonese. His work appeared in ''New York Quarterly''. Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem ''What the Kite Thinks''. Awards * 1970 Poetry Center Award (now known as the Discovery/''The Nation'' Award) * 1988 American Book Award * 2013 Elliot Cades Award for Literature Works * * Anthologies * * * * References External links"WING TEK LUM", ''Asian-American Poets''*"One Should Not Sleep Anymore: Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Kiwus
Karin Kiwus (born 9 November 1942) is a German poet from Berlin. After studying journalism, German studies and politology she worked as an editor as well as a university teacher in Austin, Texas. She was the domestic partner of the German film director Frank Beyer Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi er ... until his death in 2006. She has been active in the field of collaborative poetry, writing renshi under the guidance of Makoto Ooka.Look Japan: Volume 48, Issues 553-564. 2002, p4 Works *"Von beiden Seiten der Gegenwart". Poems. 1976. *"Vom Essen und Trinken". 1978. *"Angenommen später". Poems. 1979. References 1942 births Living people German poets Writers from Berlin German political scientists German women poets Members of the Academy of Arts, Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikirō Sasaki
is a Japanese poet and travel author, winner of the 2003 Yomiuri Prize for travel essays. Sasaki won the award for his book ''Ajia kaidō kikō: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002)''. He has published more than a score of poetry collections and travel books. His ''Demented flute: selected poems, 1967-1986''Sasaki Mikirō (1988) ''Demented flute: selected poems, 1967-1986'' Katydid Books, W. Bloomfield, Michigan, was published in English in 1988. In 2012, his poetry collection ''Ashita(Tomorrow)'' won the 2012 Sakutarō Hagiwara Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the world of Japanese poetry. He was a Part-time Lecturer in music literature at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Music. Biography Sasaki was born in Tenri in Nara, grew up in Fujiidera in Osaka, Japan, attending Fujiidera Elementary School, Osaka Municipal Hannan Junior High School, and Otemae Prefectural Senior High School. He was enrolled at Doshisha Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collaborative Poetry
Collaborative or collective poetry is an alternative and creative technique for writing poetry by more than one person. The principal aim of collaborative poetry is to create poems with multiple collaborations from various authors. In a common example of collaborative poetry, there may be numerous authors working in conjunction with one another to try to form a unified voice that can still maintain their individual voices. In recent times One of the most famous examples of collaborative poetry-writing in modern times was the poem collection ''Ralentir Travaux'' by Surrealist French poets André Breton, Paul Éluard and René Char. The poems were written collaboratively over the course of five days in 1930. The Surrealists had invented the art of Collage and collective creative 'games' such as the Exquisite corpse, where a collection of words or images are collectively assembled. In the 1940s, American poet Charles Henri Ford invented what he called the "chain poem", where each po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Foundation
The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent Administrative Institution Japan Foundation Law". The Japan Foundation aims towards comprehensive and effective development of its international cultural exchange programs in the following categories: # Promotion of (Japanese) arts and cultural exchange # Promotion of (overseas) Japanese-language education (the JLPT exam) # Promotion of (overseas) Japanese studies and intellectual exchange – Japan Foundation Information Centers collect and provide information about international exchange and international cultural exchange standard bearers. Prince Takamado served as administrator of the Japan Foundation from 1981 to 2002. Japan Foundations worldwide The Japan Foundat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Poetry
Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ''ryūka'' from the Okinawa Islands: it is possible to make a more accurate distinction between Japanese poetry written in Japan or by Japanese people in other languages versus that written in the Japanese language by speaking of Japanese-language poetry. Much of the literary record of Japanese poetry begins when Japanese poets encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang dynasty (although the Chinese classic anthology of poetry, ''Shijing'', was well known by the literati of Japan by the 6th century). Under the influence of the Chinese poets of this era Japanese began to compose poetry in Chinese '' kanshi''); and, as part of this tradition, poetry in Japan tended to be intimately associated with pictorial painting, par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renga
''Renga'' (, ''linked verse'') is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ''ku (''句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 mora (sound units, not to be confused with syllables) per line are linked in succession by multiple poets. Known as ''tsukuba no michi'' ( ''The Way of Tsukuba'') after the famous Tsukuba Mountain in the Kantō region, the form of poetry is said to have originated in a two-verse poetry exchange by Yamato Takeru and later gave birth to the genres '' haikai'' () and haiku ().Kaneko, Kinjirō. ''Rengashū, Haikaishū''. Tōkyō: Shōgakkan, 2001. Print. The genre was elevated to a literary art by Nijō Yoshimoto (, 1320–1388), who compiled the first imperial renga anthology Tsukubashū () in 1356. The most famous renga master was Sōgi (, 1421–1502), and Matsuo Bashō (, 1644–1694) after him became the most famous ''haikai'' master. Renga sequences were typically composed live during gatherings of poets, transcribed oral sessions known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renku
, or , is a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ''ushin'' renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae. Initially ''haikai no renga'' distinguished itself through vulgarity and coarseness of wit, before growing into a legitimate artistic tradition, and eventually giving birth to the haiku form of Japanese poetry. The term ''renku'' gained currency after 1904, when Kyoshi Takahama started to use it. Development The oldest known collection of haikai linked verse appears in the first imperial anthology of renga, the '' Tsukubashū'' (1356–57).Shirane, Haruo (2012). ''Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600''. Columbia University Press. p. 522. Traditional renga was a group activity in which each participant displayed his wit by spontaneously composing a verse in response ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lasdun
James Lasdun (born 1958) is an English novelist and poet. Life and career Lasdun was born in London, the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir Denys Lasdun. Lasdun has written four novels, including , a New York Times Notable Book, and , which was an Economist Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for fiction. He has published four collections of short stories, including , the title story of which was adapted for film by Bernardo Bertolucci as in 1998. His latest collection was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by , the , the and the . Lasdun has written four books of poetry, one of which, ''Landscape with Chainsaw'', was a finalist for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also selected as a TLS International Book of the Year. In 2013 he published a memoir: ''Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked''. With Jonathan Nossiter, Lasdun co-wrote the film ''Sunday'' in 1997, based on his story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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