Machi Tawara

Machi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara's contemporary Banana Yoshimoto. Contains 15 poems: 'August Morning' 'Baseball Game' 'Morning Necktie' 'I Am the Wind' 'Summertime Ship' 'Wake-up Call' 'Hashimoto High School' 'Pretending to Wait for Someone' 'Salad Anniversary' 'Twilight Alley' 'My Bisymmetrical Self' 'So, Good Luck' 'Jazz Concert' 'Backstreet Cat' 'Always American' Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.

Salad Anniversary

Juliet Winters Carpenter

Machi Tawara's first book of poems, The Anniversary of the Salad combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that followed publication of the first novel by Tawara's contemporary Banana Yoshimoto. Contains 15 poems: 'August Morning' 'Baseball Game' 'Morning Necktie' 'I Am the Wind' 'Summertime Ship' 'Wake-up Call' 'Hashimoto High School' 'Pretending to Wait for Someone' 'Salad Anniversary' 'Twilight Alley' 'My Bisymmetrical Self' 'So, Good Luck' 'Jazz Concert' 'Backstreet Cat' 'Always American' Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.

Lorsque Tawara Machi, modeste professeur de littérature au lycée de Kanagawa, fait paraître en 1987 L'Anniversaire de la salade, elle n'a sans doute aucune idée du phénoménal succès que va connaître son recueil de poèmes. Il révolutionne pourtant le genre du tanka, la forme de poésie la plus ancienne et la plus sophistiquée de la tradition japonaise. Tout en préservant les qualités propres au tanka, concision, pouvoir d'évocation, musicalité, Tawara Machi y raconte les menus événements de sa vie de jeune femme d'une vingtaine d'années - la musique, la mer, les voyages, la cuisine, le base-ball, l'amour -, y introduit un langage familier, des bribes de conversations, des icônes du monde moderne. Célèbre du jour au lendemain, elle va recevoir plus de deux cent mille tankas, envoyés par des lecteurs de tout âge et de tout milieu, dont ses poèmes ont profondément touché le coeur. A ce jour, L'Anniversaire de la salade s'est vendu à plus de huit millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. La fraîcheur et la grâce de ses poèmes, où se révèle, comme par surprise, la beauté de chaque moment intensément vécu, résonnent en chacun de nous.

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