Archive for July 16th, 2004

Awesome Nightfall: The Life , Times and Poetry of Saigyo

Friday, July 16th, 2004
I read a book of Saigyo’s poems translated by Burton Watson quite a while ago,and liked many of them, but not nearly as well as I liked those in Awesome Nightfall translated by William LaFleur. Perhaps that’s because I have a better background to appreciate them now, or perhaps it’s because I find the [...]