While the girls were hanging out in Golden Gai last night, I was picked up by William Elliott and Kazui Kawamura, the English translators of the poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and taken to an undisclosed location to meet the poet himself. I had met Tanikawa in Copenhagen 10 years ago and immediately liked him and his [...]
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The old poet and the radios
Posted in Japan, Literary, tagged poetry, shuntaro tanikawa, Tokyo, vintage radios on November 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »