Grasp On Two Shores: New And Selected Poems Showcased By Mutsuo Takahashi Depicted In Electronic Format

Takahashi was born in Japan in, and educated at Fukuoka University of Education, A playwright and poet, he has published many collections of poems in Japanese, His collection. On Two Shores, features translations by Mitsuko Ohno and Frank Sewell, and an introduction by Nobuaki Tochigi, Mutsuo Takahashi 高橋 睦郎 is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan, with than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name.
He is especially well known for his open writing about male homoeroticism, He currently lives in the seaside town of Zushi, several kilometers south of Yokohama, Japan, sitelink Translations of five of Takahashis poems by Jeffrey Angles, sitelink The PIP Project for Innovative Poetry BlogAfter a bout of tuberculosis, Takahashi graduated from the Fukuoka University of Education, and inmoved to Tokyo, For many years, he worked at an advertising company, but in the meantime, he wrote a goo Mutsuo Takahashi 高橋 睦郎 is one of the most prominent and prolific male poets, essayists, and writers of contemporary Japan,

with than three dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, dozens books of essays, and several major literary prizes to his name.
He is especially well known for his open writing about male homoeroticism, He currently lives in the seaside town of Zushi, several kilometers south of Yokohama, Japan, sitelink Translations of five of Takahashis poems by Jeffrey Angles, sitelink The PIP Project for Innovative Poetry BlogAfter a bout of tuberculosis, Takahashi graduated from the Fukuoka University of Education, and inmoved to Tokyo, For many years, he worked at an advertising company, but in the meantime, he wrote a good deal of poetry, His first book to receive national attention was Rose Tree, Fake Lovers 薔薇の木にせの恋人たち, Bara no ki, nise no koibito tachi, an anthology published inthat describes male male erotic love in bold and direct language.
A laudatory review from the critic Jun Etō appeared in the daily newspaper Asahi shimbun with Takahashis photographan unusual instance of a poets photograph included in the papers survey of literature.
About the same time, Takahashi sent the collection to the novelist Yukio Mishima who contacted him and offered to use his name to help promote Takahashis work, The two shared a close relationship and friendship that lasted until Mishimas suicide in, Other close friends Takahashi made about this time include Tatsuhiko Shibusawa who translated the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, the surreal poet Chimako Tada who shared Takahashi's interest in classical Greece, the poet Shigeo Washisu who was also interested in the classics and the existential ramifications of homoeroticism.
With the latter two writers, Takahashi cooperated to create the literary journal The Symposium 饗宴, Kyōen named after Platos famous dialogue, This interest in eroticism and existentialism, in turn, is a reflection of a larger existential trend in the literature and culture of Japan during thes ands, Homoeroticism remained an important them in his poetry written in free verse through thes, including the long poem Ode 頌, Homeuta, which the publisher Winston Leyland has called “the great gay poem of theth century.
” Many of these early works have been translated into English by Hiroaki Sato and reprinted in the collection Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature, About the same time, Takahashi started writing prose, In, he published Twelve Views from the Distance about his early life and the novella The Sacred Promontory 聖なる岬, Sei naru misaki about his own erotic awakening, In, he wrote A Legend of a Holy Place 聖所伝説, Seisho densetsu, a surrealistic novella inspired by his own experiences during a forty day trip to New York City in which Donald Richie led him through the gay, underground spots of the city.
In, he released Zens Pilgrimage of Virtue 善の遍歴, Zen no henreki, a homoerotic and often extremely humorous reworking of a legend of Sudhana found in the Buddhist classic Avatamsaka Sutra.
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