Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums - Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada

Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention ...