Donald Keene was born on 6 June 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Hanjo (1964), Camera Three (1954) and Arena (1975). He died on 24 February 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.
I suppose every kind of poetry has its overtones, things that are not spoken. But this is especially true of Japanese. The most important statement in the English language is "I love you." You translate that into Japanese, there's no "I" and there's no "you".
