Reviews

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Anthony Thwaite, Geoffrey Bownas

_tourist's review against another edition

a satisfying survey of japanese poetry.

bigdaddykt's review against another edition

5.0

so. i enjoyed this a lot. read treal slow tho caus eim kinda lazy but uhhhhh yrah was pretty cool. im not usually a fan of poetry but this was prettycool.

in_praise_of_idlenesss's review

4.0

It doesn’t get much better than this fellas

va87's review

3.0

Short, simple, solemn poetry seemingly unbroken in pursuit of its own aim and style for over a thousand years. Well, that's my impression since the front- and back-matter is not as enlightening as it should be -- there is all of one sentence explaining the method and intent of these translations.