This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan. Though classic

Introduces Japanese culture, and discusses the aesthetics, poetry, fiction, and theater of Japan

A richly dynamic, one-of-a-kind collection of over 240 poems from eighty leading Japanese poets.

Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan shows how entitlements are implicated in all areas of life—human and nonhuman—that poetry reaches. Through