An Antithetical History of Contemporary Japanese Poetry: Twenty-First Century Poets and Politics (New Studies in Modern Japan)

"Providing both literary-historical context and in-depth poetry analysis, this book traces major changes in twenty-first century Japanese poetry. The book examines three major contemporary poets: Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, and Koike Masayo, as well as women's voices in contemporary poetry and poetry composed on the theme of politics. Leith Morton argues that both of these poetic domains were influenced by technology and catastrophe and highlights these influences and connections; some poets retreated into the subjectivity of the self, while other poets boldly struck out to confront Japanese society"-- Provided by publisher.