Literary Imagination is a forum for all those interested in the distinctive nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. Its aim is to encourage wide-ranging discussions between those committed to the reading, writing, and study of poetry, fiction, translations, drama, non-fiction essays, criticism, and scholarship. The journal seeks to develop a healthy environment for academic literary study and for the literary culture that extends beyond the academy. The journal welcomes literary scholars, both academic and independent; teachers of literature in colleges, universities, and secondary schools; poets, novelists, playwrights, actors, and directors; translators, journalists, critics, editors, and publishers; and all other serious students of literature, wherever they come from and however they define themselves.
Inside This Issue:
Letter from the Editor by Paul Franz
Articles
“With the Soul of a Poet”: Lafcadio Hearn and G. S. Fraser on Japanese Volcanoes by Ryuichiro Yokoyama
Genji’s Ghosts by Keith Vincent
Sounding W. B. Yeats’s “Cuchulain Comforted” by David Sergeant
Distant Views of Waka Bay: Traditional Japanese Verse and the Question of Lyric by Ryan Hintzman
Translations (Poetry)
Six Tanka by Shizuka Omori by Yuki Tanaka
Selected Tanka and Free Form Poems by Yosano Akiko by Janine Beichman
Translations (Prose)
Selections from The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon translated by Keith Vincent
Two Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa translated by Ryan Choi
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