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Grasses of Remembrance, the second volume of Edwin Cranston's monumental Waka Anthology, carries forward the story of Japanese court poetry, drawing on sources

Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, groo

"This admirable and necessary volume allows the original writers to speak to us directly. Though all this is carefully documented, we are at the same time spare