Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi
Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
"Yone Noguchi was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. Critical evaluations of Noguchi, while varying drastically, have frequently stressed the enigmatic character of his work. Arthur Symons referred to him as a "scarcely to be apprehended personality." Arthur Ransome called him "a poet whose poems are so separate that a hundred of them do not suffice for his expression." Ezra Pound, on first reading The Pilgrimage in 1911 wrote that "His poems seem to be rather beautiful. I don't quite know what to think about them." Nishiwaki Junzaburō wrote, "Most of his earlier poems have always seemed to me so terrific, so bewildering, as to startle me out of reason or system." - Summary by Wikipedia (1 hr 52 min)
Chapitres
| Foreword | 13:47 | Lu par Nemo |
| What About my Songs | 1:12 | Lu par Nemo |
| Where is the Poet | 1:20 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Desert of ' No More ' | 1:15 | Lu par Nemo |
| Seas of Loneliness | 1:41 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Garden of Truth | 1:14 | Lu par Nemo |
| Like a Paper Lantern | 1:00 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| I Hail Myself as I Do Homer - | 3:16 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Night Reverie in the Forest | 4:05 | Lu par Nemo |
| Song of Day in Yosemite Valley | 4:26 | Lu par Nemo |
| Song of Night in Yosemite Valley | 1:54 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Apparition | 1:14 | Lu par Nemo |
| O Cho San | 2:28 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Address to a Soyokaze | 1:50 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Under the Moon | 3:25 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| O Hana San | 3:22 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Myoto | 1:14 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Goddess : God | 0:39 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| By the Sea | 2:08 | Lu par Nemo |
| Homekotoba | 8:10 | Lu par Nemo |
| Upon the Heights | 2:00 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Poet | 1:09 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Face in the Mirror | 2:58 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| How Near to Fairyland | 1:17 | Lu par Nemo |
| Lines | 1:06 | Lu par Nemo |
| Spring | 1:03 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Prose Poems | 8:21 | Lu par Nemo |
| The New Art | 1:25 | Lu par Nemo |
| By the Enagakuji Temple : Moon Night | 0:59 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| To a Nightingale | 2:03 | Lu par Nemo |
| I am Like a Leaf | 0:58 | Lu par Nemo |
| To the Sunflower | 0:56 | Lu par Nemo |
| Shadow | 1:14 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Fantastic Snow-flakes | 1:12 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Ghost of Abyss | 1:00 | Lu par Nemo |
| Autumn Song | 0:50 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Fantasia | 1:19 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Temple Bell | 1:04 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| To the Cicada | 1:24 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| The Lady of Utamaro's Art | 1:14 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Buddha Priest in Meditation | 1:21 | Lu par Nemo |
| In the Inland Sea | 1:33 | Lu par Nemo |
| Kyoto | 1:05 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| My Little Bird | 1:14 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Her Weapons are a Smile and a Little Fan | 0:52 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| My Heart | 1:06 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Lotus Worshippers | 1:33 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Lines | 1:02 | Lu par Nemo |
| The Eastern Sea | 1:39 | Lu par Nemo |
| To a Sparrow | 1:09 | Lu par Nemo |
| Right and Left | 1:00 | Lu par Nemo |
| In Japan Beyond | 1:36 | Lu par Nemo |
| Cradle Songs | 1:38 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
| Japanese Hokkus | 2:52 | Lu par Eva Davis (d. 2025) |
Critiques
Poetry that sinks into my soul.
free LeonardPeltier
I've listened to about half of these poems, so far and know I will go back to them regularly, since you can listen to any number of them and in any order. They share the focus on nature that is what makes Japanese poetry so important to me. It is interesting to read in the LibraVox introduction, that Yone Noguchi wrote both in English and Japanese. I would like to learn more about him. I am now reading his "The American Diary of a Japanese Girl". I thought this author was a female at first and that confusion was added to because of his writings as if by a female narrator.
Great poems and readers
WareforCoin
The poems are powerful sometimes, playful other times, and always an imaginative topic. The readers really did a good job with this book.