I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond

Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In these translations of her first poetry collection, I Saw a Pale Horse (Aouma wo mitari) and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond (H?r?ki), Fumiko's literary origins are colorfully revealed. Little known in the west, these early poetic texts focus on Fumiko's unconventional early life, and her construction of a female subject that would challenge, with gusto and panache, accepted notions not only of class, family, and gender but also of female poetic practice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 04/30/2011
ISBN: 9781885445865
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d