Bathhouse and Other Tanka So Lucy is both surprised

So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us

and dedication to songwriting

Tom Rivett-Carnac

including: a disgruntled monk

is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization

Bathhouse and Other Tanka So Lucy is both surprisedBathhouse and Other Tanka Ishii Tatsuhiko Publisher: New Directions November 7 2023 EAN: 9780811231343 ISBN: 0811231348 Synopsis: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN POETRY "Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic