A Great Valley Under the Stars

A Great Valley Under the Stars is the first book of poetry by Royall Tyler, the award-winning translator of The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, and other works of Japanese literature. Royall Tyler writes: "Distilled fro m notes and pages written decades ago in the New Mexico desert and during M idwestern winters, this suite moves from listening for the voice of the wor thless - trash, stones, men in the least of places - to a vision of a great valley under the stars, the spell of love, and the music of the sky. It is all one." "Intimate and expansive, moving from a truckstop in the New Mexi co desert to its counterpart in the world of the Japanese sacred, from inte nsely realised prose to prayerful poems of love, A Great Valley Under the S tars is a work of maturest reflection and consummate skill, a lifetime in t he making, and worth the wait." (Andrew Fitzsimons) "This is a delightful a nd lovely book - at once spare and lyrical, whimsical and profound. I hav e been grateful for Royall Tyler's splendid translations for years, but I a m every bit as grateful now to have read him writing entirely in his own vo ice." (David Bentley Hart) "Royall Tyler's poems, at once earthy and subtle , intensely responsive to all the world holds, far and near, resonate singl y and together in the mind and heart: an act of magic." (Dianne Highbridge).

Product Info

ISBN: 4907359055

ISBN-13: 9784907359058

Publisher: Isobar Press

Year: 2014

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Seller Info

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Country: Japan