Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura. Poet, dramatist, and translator Tanikawa Shuntaro's more than sixty volumes of poetry have brought him the major Japanese literary prizes and (in translation by Elliott and Kawamura) the American Book Award. He has read his work in Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, London, the Academy of American Poets, and the Library of Congress. Other Tanikawa titles available from SPD include 62 Sonnets & Definitions, Giving People Poems, and Naked.