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The spring warmth steals into me, drying up all the tears of my soul, And gives me a flight into the vastness,—into a floorless, unroofed reverie-hall. Lo, such greenness, such vel…
Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English, was born in 1875 in Tsushima. While studying at Keio Gijuku, Noguchi decided to travel to the United States. After arriving in San Francisco in 1893, Noguchi worked as a journalist and as a domestic servant before deciding to pursue poetry. A few years later, Noguchi published his first poems in a small San Francisco magazine called The Lark. He went on to publish many articles and several books of poetry and prose. He returned to Japan in 1905 and continued to publish extensively in English, including Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi (The Four Seas Company, 1921), establishing himself as a cross-cultural and transnational writer. The father of Isamu Noguchi, one of the twentieth century’s renowned sculptors, Noguchi died in Toyooka-mura on July 13, 1947.
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The faint shadow of the morning moon? Nay, the snow falling on the earth. The mist of blossoming flowers? Nay, poetry smiling up the sky.
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When I am lost in the deep body of the mist on the hill, The world seems built with me as its pillar! Am I the god upon the face of the deep, deepless deepness in the Beginning?
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And victor of life and silence, I stood upon the Heights; triumphant, With upturned eyes, I stood, And smiled unto the sun, and sang…
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The inky-garmented, truth-dead Cloud—woven by dumb ghost alone in the darkness of phantasmal mountain-mouth—kidnapped the maiden Moon, silence-faced, love-mannered, mirroring her g…