Book record
A Chagall and a tree leaf
Shuntarō Tanikawa
Translated from Japanese by William I. Elliott
A Chagall and a tree leaf, translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott, brings Shuntarō Tanikawa's Japanese-language work into English through Katydid Books. Published in 2008, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Tanikawa’s title places art and leaf beside each other with disarming ease, as if the poem’s task is to let scale remain playful. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Katydid Books
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9780942668681