Winner of a 1990 Translation Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University

Winner of a 1990 Honor Award for Design at the 41st Annual Chicago Book Clinic Book Show

"David Goodman has introduced a poet who in his combination of political engagement and literary excellence easily bears comparison to such internationally known poets as Federico de Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Osip Mandelstam."
--Janine Beichman in the Journal of Japanese Studies

"Strongly evocative and trenchant poetry . . . Goodman's fluent re-creations stand proudly on their own in English and provide a fresh perspective on modern Japanese poetry, and the humanity that lies behind it."
--J. Thomas Rimer, University of Maryland

"Oguma's poems are like brilliant points of light in a dark valley-beautiful, intense, unwavering. David Goodman's superb translations . . . illuminate Japan and the Japanese of the 1920s and 1930s in startling, unforgettable ways."
--John W. Dower, University of California-San Diego

"Due to the fine translation . . . Long, Long Autumn Nights should prove of great value as a teaching tool to educators. The book is certain to be appreciated as an enrichment of both Japanese literature and Japanese history."
--Masako Nakagawa, Villanova University

A Japanese avant-garde poet who stood for cultural tolerance in a repressive, imperialistic age, Oguma Hideo published some of the most politically powerful poems ever written in Japan. The present volume is the first sampling of his poetry in English.