It should not be so hard to write both poetry and fiction. Both arts, after all, make use of the same materials, words and punctuation. Poems...
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Yasunari Kawabata's writing is lyrical and flows so smoothly that the words never seem to interfere with the narrative. In his short stories, he creates beautiful, verbal dioramas. I felt that I was reading something wholly new: a unique form somewhere between a short story and a haiku. This is a collection that I go back to re-read often.
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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Peter_S, January 4, 2010
Yasunari Kawabata's writing is lyrical and flows so smoothly that the words never seem to interfere with the narrative. In his short stories, he creates beautiful, verbal dioramas. I felt that I was reading something wholly new: a unique form somewhere between a short story and a haiku. This is a collection that I go back to re-read often.