Posts Tagged ‘寒山の新詩集: No Mountain: Improvisations from Han-Shan’s New Home in Ueno Park Tokyo by Wayne Pounds’

Whether for a single poem, or a single-author collection of poems, inspiration is offered by different muses. It can come from a place and the history of that place; from a disease and all that living with a disease entails; from travel and the changing vistas that moving from place to place, history to history, presents; from poetic form: the shape that words and lines are given. Recent collections by four Japan-based poets are examples of books that grow from just these seeds.