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Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi

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(4,6 Sterne; 5 Bewertungen)

"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

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Homekotoba

8:10

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Upon the Heights

2:00

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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

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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

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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

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The Buddha Priest in Meditation

1:21

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In the Inland Sea

1:33

Read by Nemo

Kyoto

1:05

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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

Bewertungen

Poetry that sinks into my soul.

(4,5 Sterne)

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.