A rare collection of poems by the beloved Japanese poet Shuntarō Tanikawa, also famous in Japan as the translator of Charles Shultz's Peanuts, translated into English by William I. Elliot and Kazuo Kawamura.
These hymns of childhood re-create the world of first lies, first loves, piano lessons, parents, relatives, playmates, and secrets. With precocious truthfulness, they offer a sense of wonder and foreboding. What does the child know that adults have forgotten, and what has the poet/adult determined to relive in bittersweet recollection? These poems surprise, delight, and disturb as they ramble through time and experiences familiar to all of us who grow old into wisdom.
Paper.
21 cm x 14 cm x 0.5 cm
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