Kawabata's Lake : poems
(Book)

Veteran American poet Rodney Nelson finds the work of the late Japanese novelist and Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata to be an inspiration. He often uses Kawabata's name in a poem title “as a tone setter.” There are several such instances in his new collection, Kawabata's Lake. The book exemplifies Nelson's interpretation of being in the natural world, sometimes obsessive, more often Zen-like.