tankas

A book on japanese tankas an anthology of mahmoud darwish's work danger/beauty--jessica hagedorn

DO YOU BUY POETRY? THE RAW DATA 2008

A book on japanese tankas an anthology of mahmoud darwish's work danger/beauty--jessica hagedorn

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

I read a lot of Japanese haikus and tankas however.

Poetry 2008

But kids who like silly limericks or tankas that begin with words like, "Fish guts" will find their favorites in this selection.

Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

He remounted the bridge, and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong.

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

Punkas (also called pankasor tankas) are apparatus that serve for fanning rooms throughout the entire extent of English India.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various

The poems in the Diaries are all tankas in the original.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

He remounted the bridge, and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong.

Around the World in Eighty Days 1873

At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many floating parterres.

Around the World in Eighty Days 1873

You lean back as if you were Isaac anticipating his father's judgement and we are both in that drunken, beatific state that makes any room sacred. one metaphor twenty winters from now you'll still be divining profundities from copulation and I'll still be mining my family secrets for that one metaphor that will inexplicably explain my childhood there's so little poetry in the reality that we can't write our failings into a good life, or be thankful our compulsions move us any closer toward truth in Japan, a bird alights on a branch outside your window and inspires a hundred tankas or it simply wings over your house, unnoticed

Fountain Street Jazno Francoeur