Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi
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"Yone Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. Critical evaluations of Noguchi, while varying drastically, have frequently stressed the enigmatic character of his work. Arthur Symons referred to him as a "scarcely to be apprehended personality." Arthur Ransome called him "a poet whose poems are so separate that a hundred of them do not suffice for his expression." Ezra Pound, on first reading The Pilgrimage in 1911 wrote that "His poems seem to be rather beautiful. I don't quite know what to think about them." Nishiwaki Junzaburō wrote, "Most of his earlier poems have always seemed to me so terrific, so bewildering, as to startle me out of reason or system." - Summary by Wikipedia (1 hr 52 min)
Chapters
Foreword | 13:47 | Read by Nemo |
What About my Songs | 1:12 | Read by Nemo |
Where is the Poet | 1:20 | Read by Eva Davis |
The Desert of ' No More ' | 1:15 | Read by Nemo |
Seas of Loneliness | 1:41 | Read by Eva Davis |
The Garden of Truth | 1:14 | Read by Nemo |
Like a Paper Lantern | 1:00 | Read by Eva Davis |
I Hail Myself as I Do Homer - | 3:16 | Read by Nemo |
The Night Reverie in the Forest | 4:05 | Read by Nemo |
Song of Day in Yosemite Valley | 4:26 | Read by Nemo |
Song of Night in Yosemite Valley | 1:54 | Read by Eva Davis |
Apparition | 1:14 | Read by Nemo |
O Cho San | 2:28 | Read by Eva Davis |
Address to a Soyokaze | 1:50 | Read by Eva Davis |
Under the Moon | 3:25 | Read by Eva Davis |
O Hana San | 3:22 | Read by Nemo |
The Myoto | 1:14 | Read by Eva Davis |
The Goddess : God | 0:39 | Read by Eva Davis |
By the Sea | 2:08 | Read by Nemo |
Homekotoba | 8:10 | Read by Nemo |
Upon the Heights | 2:00 | Read by Nemo |
The Poet | 1:09 | Read by Nemo |
The Face in the Mirror | 2:58 | Read by Eva Davis |
How Near to Fairyland | 1:17 | Read by Nemo |
Lines | 1:06 | Read by Nemo |
Spring | 1:03 | Read by Eva Davis |
Prose Poems | 8:21 | Read by Nemo |
The New Art | 1:25 | Read by Nemo |
By the Enagakuji Temple : Moon Night | 0:59 | Read by Eva Davis |
To a Nightingale | 2:03 | Read by Nemo |
I am Like a Leaf | 0:58 | Read by Nemo |
To the Sunflower | 0:56 | Read by Nemo |
Shadow | 1:14 | Read by Eva Davis |
The Fantastic Snow-flakes | 1:12 | Read by Eva Davis |
Ghost of Abyss | 1:00 | Read by Nemo |
Autumn Song | 0:50 | Read by Eva Davis |
Fantasia | 1:19 | Read by Nemo |
The Temple Bell | 1:04 | Read by Eva Davis |
To the Cicada | 1:24 | Read by Eva Davis |
The Lady of Utamaro's Art | 1:14 | Read by Nemo |
The Buddha Priest in Meditation | 1:21 | Read by Nemo |
In the Inland Sea | 1:33 | Read by Nemo |
Kyoto | 1:05 | Read by Eva Davis |
My Little Bird | 1:14 | Read by Eva Davis |
Her Weapons are a Smile and a Little Fan | 0:52 | Read by Eva Davis |
My Heart | 1:06 | Read by Nemo |
The Lotus Worshippers | 1:33 | Read by Eva Davis |
Lines | 1:02 | Read by Nemo |
The Eastern Sea | 1:39 | Read by Nemo |
To a Sparrow | 1:09 | Read by Nemo |
Right and Left | 1:00 | Read by Nemo |
In Japan Beyond | 1:36 | Read by Nemo |
Cradle Songs | 1:38 | Read by Eva Davis |
Japanese Hokkus | 2:52 | Read by Eva Davis |
Reviews
Poetry that sinks into my soul.
free LeonardPeltier
I've listened to about half of these poems, so far and know I will go back to them regularly, since you can listen to any number of them and in any order. They share the focus on nature that is what makes Japanese poetry so important to me. It is interesting to read in the LibraVox introduction, that Yone Noguchi wrote both in English and Japanese. I would like to learn more about him. I am now reading his "The American Diary of a Japanese Girl". I thought this author was a female at first and that confusion was added to because of his writings as if by a female narrator.