The Modern Tanka Encyclopedia that I ordered the other day arrived from Amazon Marketplace. As soon as I began leafing through it, I found it enjoyable. A lazy person like me could never open individual tanka collections, arrange them in chronological order, and appreciate them. It is very convenient to be able to see, at a glance and through examples, how the styles of representative poets have changed. It looks as though it will be a favorite book for a while…
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