127 Ishikawa Takuboku: "The Early-Ripening Fruit"
This episode focuses on a Japanese poet who left a huge literary echo in his short life—Ishikawa Takuboku. Ishikawa Takuboku was born in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, in 1886 and died young from illness at the age of 26. He is famous for his tanka poetry, breaking with tradition by using plain, descriptive strokes to directly depict personal emotions and social reality, displaying a sense of subjectivity rarely seen at the time. He is also regarded as the most well-known national poet in contemporary Japan. This episode invites young writer Dong Lai to discuss the recently translated and published biography of Ishikawa Takuboku by Donald Keene, written in his later years. We review Takuboku's short life of precocity, anxiety, self-destruction, and struggle, as well as his astonishing talent as a poet.
Original Chinese title & description
127 石川啄木：“早熟的水果”
本期节目将聚焦一位在短暂生命中留下巨大文学回响的日本诗人——石川啄木。石川啄木，1886年生于日本岩手县，26岁便因病早逝。他以短歌闻名，诗风突破传统，用白描般的笔触直接描写个人情感与社会现实，展现出当时少见的主体意识，也被视为当代日本最为人所知的国民级诗人。本期邀请到青年作家东来，围绕沙青青老师新近翻译出版的唐纳德·基恩晚年所著的石川啄木传记展开，回顾了啄木的早熟、焦虑、自毁而又挣扎的短暂一生以及他作为诗人的惊人天赋。
Participation credit “本期参与者”：沙青青（微信公众号：13号埋立地、小红书：Sha-13号埋立地）。
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