Bathhouse and Other Tanka Refractive Africa this is poetry meant to

this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation

Tityrus is both an elegy to a natural world that has long been overindustrialised

in a landscape populated by books

Alina en Sinem

' While the title might imply a gendered site of production

Bathhouse and Other Tanka Refractive Africa this is poetry meant toTatsuhiko Ishii (trans. Hiroaki Sato) Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being, writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative contemporary tradition. What was originally a five line 5 7 5 7 7 syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line,