Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems

About this film

LibriVox recording of Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems by Sadakichi Hartmann. Read in English by Nemo Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakichi was sent to Germany to be raised. He arrived in America in 1882 and became friends with Walt Whitman. Sadakichi became an art and literary critic, wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. His poetry was heavily influenced by both the Japanese forms and Symbolist poets like Stéphane Mallarmé. - Summary by Nemo For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (18MB)

Directors & creators

Sadakichi Hartmann

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;poetry; Japan; poem; 1904; tanka; symbolist; japanese poets

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