Angel at the Earth's Extreme

Nakahara Chuya (Author) Nakahara Chuya (1907-1937) was one of the finest Japanese poets of the twentieth century. Often referred to as the Japanese Rimbaud for his tragic early death and poems of ennui and romantic melancholy, he was a pioneer of modernism in Japanese poetry and published two collections in his lifetime, Goat Songs and Songs of Bygone Days.Jeffrey Angles (Translator) Jeffrey Angles is a professor of Japanese literature at Western Michigan University and an award-winning translator of Japanese. His own book of Japanese poetry won the Yomiuri Prize in 2017.

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