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Poems of Matsuo Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0
Published: September 18, 2020
Purchase: $10
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0
Published: September 18, 2020
Purchase: $10
Poems of Yosa Buson
Author: Yosa Buson
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-1-0
Published: December 7, 2021
Purchase: $10
Author: Yosa Buson
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-1-0
Published: December 7, 2021
Purchase: $10
Poems of Kobayashi Issa
Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: September 18, 2020
Purchase: $10
Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: September 18, 2020
Purchase: $10
Poems of Taneda Santoka
Author: Taneda Santoka
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-3-4
Published: April 28, 2022
Purchase: $10
Author: Taneda Santoka
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-3-4
Published: April 28, 2022
Purchase: $10
Six Phrases
Author: Hatano Soha
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-0-5
Published: August 26, 2020
Purchase: $10
Author: Hatano Soha
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-0-5
Published: August 26, 2020
Purchase: $10
Poems of Masaoka Shiki
Author: Masaoka Shiki
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-9-6
Published: May 12, 2023
Purchase: $10
Author: Masaoka Shiki
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-9-6
Published: May 12, 2023
Purchase: $10
I’ll say my dream for these worthy artifacts is that they
would be given as surprise parting gifts to friends who are about to head out
to the airport. Reading these poems on a subway train on the way to the
airport—that would surely produce the receptive/grateful headspace these things
flourish in.
But how are the translations? Oh, I would use the word “expert.” This Anthony Opal clearly either knows a lot of Japanese, or knows enough to check carefully with people who do.
But how are the translations? Oh, I would use the word “expert.” This Anthony Opal clearly either knows a lot of Japanese, or knows enough to check carefully with people who do.
If you compare his translations
with those published by, say, Columbia University Press, you find that his
versions have no idiosyncrasies. Your overwhelming sense will be that he is
striving to say in elegant English what it says in the elegant Japanese.
-ANTHONY MADRID, from “On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese” (Fence Digital, Constant Critic)
-ANTHONY MADRID, from “On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese” (Fence Digital, Constant Critic)