Japanese Contemporary Poetry

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“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
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“Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.”
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“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
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