Japanese Contemporary Poetry

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    “I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

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    “If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)