TY - JOUR
AU - Tamura, Ryūichi
AB -  T A M U R A R Y U I C H I new year letter (1) If you can imagine evil you are the owner of a good heart evil does not have the power to imagine evil evil is nothing but a huge "number" Listen to the midnight bell at Komyoji Temple in Zaimokuza and then go out to the shore it's a wonderful ebb tide Look out to sea, keep on walking and you should earnestly write a letter for the sake of a small number of people new year letter (2) Are you well? Since I get a "New Year's Letter" from you every year this time I will write one Your "New Year's Letter" was a mimeographed section of W.H. Auden's long poem It's always a pleasure Speaking of Auden I love the poem called "September 1, 1939" the epilogue goes like this "Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame." On the night Nazi Germany 
TI - Five Poems
JF - Manoa
DA - 2008-12-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/five-poems-L0gAIvvL09
SP - 132
EP - 136
VL - 20
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -