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One hundred poems from the Japanese

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Description: A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by English translations by poet Kenneth Rexroth.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MCMLV [1955]
Call number: 660936
Provenance: From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.; From the Kim Stanley Robinson Library. With inscription on fly-leaf: "To Tita from John" with poem, dated 1985.
Dimensions: 21 cm
Associated people: Rexroth, Kenneth, (1905-1982,); Mardersteig, Giovanni, (1892-1977,); Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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FrancEyE. Poems : typescript drafts

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39 photocopied poems by FrancEyE accompanied by a letter and book introduction, "Inseparable: The Poems and the Poet," by Hansen.

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Includes poems from the T'and Dynasty and the Sung Dynasty, with biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems.

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