The Thin Shell of Night: 1940~1949

William Empson • China, 1940

Alfred Noyes • Japanese Doves, 1941

Paul Goodman • The Cyclist, 1941

Anonymous • The Fortress of the East, 1942

George Barker • from Pacific Sonnets, 1944

Kenneth Rexroth • from The Phoenix and the Tortoise, 1944

Anonymous: ‘K’ • Jungle Night, 1945

Samuel Lieberman • Tokyo, Winter 1946

Randall Jarrell • The Rising Sun, 1947

Claus Stamm • To Kazuko—1947

Samuel Lieberman • Oh, Mt. Fuji: Poem and Commentary for
GI’s and Other Tourists, ca, 1947

Edmund Blunden • Osaka in Reconstruction, 1948

Edmund Blunden • To the New Japan, 1949

Kenneth Rexroth • Yugao, 1949

Kenneth Rexroth • Hojoki, 1949