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The Pleasures of Peace gathers recent poems by Paul Rossiter, mostly written on the move in 2018-19, and concerned with such matters as Pythagoras, The Tempest, Westray and Papa Westray, a Neolithic house, biscuits and oatcakes, seabirds in flight, a hot spring in Akita, big seas and snow rollers, jazz in Tokyo, elegiac memory, Kamakura in February, the other side of the world, Isamu Noguchi, a feat of archery at the Battle of Yashima (1185), Issa's words for rain, the late Cantos of Ezra Pound, the London Blitz, rosebay willow herb, Tomas Tranströmer, the Plymouth Blitz, the Rame Peninsula in…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The Pleasures of Peace gathers recent poems by Paul Rossiter, mostly written on the move in 2018-19, and concerned with such matters as Pythagoras, The Tempest, Westray and Papa Westray, a Neolithic house, biscuits and oatcakes, seabirds in flight, a hot spring in Akita, big seas and snow rollers, jazz in Tokyo, elegiac memory, Kamakura in February, the other side of the world, Isamu Noguchi, a feat of archery at the Battle of Yashima (1185), Issa's words for rain, the late Cantos of Ezra Pound, the London Blitz, rosebay willow herb, Tomas Tranströmer, the Plymouth Blitz, the Rame Peninsula in eastern Cornwall, Richard Carew of Antony, incidents in Brexitland, Barbara Hepworth's garden, the Isles of Scilly, an approach to Penzance by sea in rain, and the onset of autumn.
Autorenporträt
Originally from Cornwall, Paul Rossiter has lived in Japan since 1981. After retiring from teaching at the University of Tokyo in 2012, he founded Isobar Press, which specialises in publishing both English-language poetry from Japan and translations of modern and contemporary Japanese poetry.