At the end of March I ordered a bunch of books from Amazon, one of them being Strong in the Rain, Roger Pulvers‘ translation of Kenji Miyazawa’s poetry. The book was supposed to be released in April, but Amazon had trouble finding it so I didn’t get it until today.
I’m not much of a poetry reader, usually the poetry I like is lyrics to music, but I saw Strong in the Rain reviewed in an issue of NewScientist and was drawn to a poet who made his living as a scientist (since I’m a don’t-wanna-be-a-scientist-no-more writer). Miyazawa combines his scientific understanding of the world with his poetic nature, something that I hadn’t run across before.
It will be a while before I post a review of this one, I have a feeling I’ll have to read poetry in small doses in order to get used to it … or maybe that’s the way you’re supposed to read it anyway.
