TTS Editions | Takeuchi Kozo | Translation Archive 00001 | Poetry

Takeuchi Kōzō’s poetry is marked by a disarming directness and urgency, combining youthful candor, humor, tenderness, and an acute awareness of wartime violence. Written in the years immediately preceding his death at twenty-three, his poems speak in an intensely personal voice that resists the rhetoric and dehumanization of war.