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

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 (Hôrôki), 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.

• | Author: Fumiko Hayashi
• | Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 168 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1885445865
• | ISBN-13: 9781885445865