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"I Saw a Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of Vagabond"
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"I Saw a Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of Vagabond"
Current price: $34.00
Barnes and Noble
"I Saw a Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of Vagabond"
Current price: $34.00
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Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In these translations of her first poetry collection,
and
, Fumiko's literary origins are colorfully revealed. Little known in the west, these early poetic texts focus on Fumiko's unconventional early life, and her construction of a female subject that would challenge, with gusto and panache, accepted notions not only of class, family, and gender but also of female poetic practice.