THRONG SONG
(from CITY OF SONG: The Incendiary Arias)
The Radicals
A Nation's Ideogrammic Anthems
A hundred haiku — each poem exemplifying an image of a culture that defines the initial song and observes the people and the social settings that have influenced his lyrical output.
A thirty-six poem saga, numerically based on the anthology of the Thirty-Six Immortal Women Poets collected during the Kamakura Period of Japan (1185-1333).
The history of Japan in poetic form — a collection of narratives pertaining to the ontology of a nation — a people, a culture, a social milieu.
