FERRIS WHEEL: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka, Translated by Kozue Uzawa and Amelia Fielden. This is a bilingual edition with romanization. With Preface by Kozue Uzawa. Published by Cheng & Tsui Company, 25 West Street, Boston, MA 02111-1213 USA.
ISBN: 0887274943, 5.25 x 8.25, perfectbound, 132 pp.
“This book can be a door into a whole wide world of poetry that the reader will always remember with a special sense of gratitude and return to with renewed appreciation.”
— Janine Beichman, author of Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works
“The editor of Gusts, Canada’s premier journal of modern tanka in English, here reminds us that we have much yet to learn from our contemporaries in Japan. Kozue Uzawa offers a fresh take on some of the most brilliant and mind-bending tanka being written anywhere. Her delightful, ineluctable mix of familiar, prize-winning poets, and voices that will be new to the English-language reader, includes Shuji Terayama, Tamiko Ohnishi, Rigen Kinoshita, Masayuki Yabe, Toshio Mae, Masaoka Shiki, and Machi Tawara. In these 101 poems, readers are given a much-needed synthesis and symbiosis of modern Japanese tanka. This book is radiant.”
— Michael McClintock, President, Tanka Society of America