Taking his cue from the woodblock prints of the ukiyo-e masters, the Arkansas-born Imagist writes brief poems on lovers embracing, a picnic under the cherry trees, court ladies beneath plum blossoms, an actor playing a dancing girl and a pedlar cheating villagers with a smile. A preface on the history of Japanese verse forms introduces the sequence.
A compact, delicate example of the Imagist fascination with Japan, by a later Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Download the free EPUB.