Journey of life: selected poems of Daisaku Ikeda

✍ Scribed by Daisaku Ikeda

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing;Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010;2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 200 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0857735624

✦ Synopsis

Whether through lyrical celebrations of the wonders of nature; paeans to the steadfastness of women; or salutations to the world leaders who have in their various ways provided inspiration to his lifelong devotion to the causes of peace, justice and education, Daisaku Ikeda in his poems expresses unwavering commitment to the development of a humanistic global culture. These translations, the first of a three-volume collection and based on the Japanese Complete Works of Daisaku Ikeda (Ikeda Daisaku zenshu), cover the years 1945-2007, and explore the many subjects to which the leader of the Soka Gakkai International has devoted his 'poetic heart and mind.'

The translators have sought to reproduce the rhythms and timbres of a voice, which- though influenced by the likes of Whitman, Defoe, Dumas, Ibsen, Emerson and Shelley- is yet distinctive and unique. Sometimes the poet adopts a simple vernacular note; at other times the compression associated with Japanese poeic forms haiku...