Japanese 597P - ST-Modern Japanese Poetry

This course covers major works in modern Japanese lyric poetry, beginning with the earliest Meiji-era long-form poems and ending with Wago Ryoichi's poems on the disasters of March 11, 2011. We will pair the poems with critical essays that highlight crucial issues in modern poetics. All readings are available in English, although graduate students will have the opportunity to engage with the poems in the original.