I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems From Diary of a Vagabond (Cornell East Asia Series)

I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems From Diary of a Vagabond (Cornell East Asia Series)

by Hayashi, Fumiko, Brown, Janice (Translated by)

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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 (Hōrōki), 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.
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