Yone Noguchi

The Stream of Fate

Volume One: The Western Sea

By Edward Marx

Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate is the first full-length biography of the pioneering international Japanese poet Yone Noguchi (1875-1947). Volume One, The Western Sea opens in the last year of his life, with Noguchi’s postwar struggle to reconnect with his estranged son, the celebrated artist Isamu Noguchi. From there, the narrative returns to his beginnings in Meiji Japan, follows his adventurous years abroad in America and England, and concludes with his return home at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Richly illustrated with more than 200 images, this volume also includes an introduction addressing the controversies surrounding Noguchi’s posthumous reputation.

List Price: $48.95 (hardcover)
6.14 x 9.21 in. (15.6 x 23.4 cm)
438 pages
ISBN: 978-1-939913-05-0 (hardcover edition)
Publisher: Botchan Books
Publication date: September 2, 2019

Contents

• About the Text
• Prologue: Spring, 1947
• Introduction: The Homeless Snail
• 1 Town of Purple Waves: Japan 1875-1893
• 2 A Sudden Turning of my Life’s Page: San Francisco 1893-1895
• 3 Upon the Heights: Oakland 1895-1897
• 4 New World: California 1897-1900
• 5 Heading East: Chicago-Washington-New York, 1900-1902
• 6 Yone Noguchi At Last!: London and Boston 1902-1903
• 7 Sword and Love: New York 1903-1904
• Illustrations

About the author

Edward Marx, Associate Professor of English and American literature and culture at Ehime University, Matsuyama, is the author of numerous books and articles on cross-cultural literature. His books on the Noguchis include the award-winning Leonie Gilmour: When East Weds West (Botchan Books, 2013), The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry (University of Toronto Press, 2004), and (with Laura Franey), The American Diary of a Japanese Girl: An Annotated Edition (Temple University Press, 2007).