Ayukawa Nobuo / 鮎川信夫
Ayukawa Nobuo (1920-1986) was a founding member of the poetry group Arechi (Wasteland) and, as poet, critic, soldier and pacifist has been a strong inspiration to many important Japanese writers and poets of the post-war and subsequent generation.
(Translators Oketani Shogo and Leza Lowitz have a translation entitled Selected Poems of Ayukawa Nobuo forthcoming in 2006 from Kaya Press.)
