Seen and Unseen

<p><I>Seen and Unseen: Or Monologues of a Homeless Snail</I> (1897) is a collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Written only three years after his arrival in San Francisco these poems capture the emotions of a young man far from home. Fluent in English and adept with the open flowing style of free verse Noguchi remains unique in his vision of earthly life.<p>Noguchi's poems are songs of light and shadow in tune with animals seasons spirits and complex emotions. His words are leaves his thoughts are curtains knocking with their shadowy hands upon his door. His [p]oetry begins with the tireless songs of the cricket on the lean gray haired hill in sober-faced evening. / And the next page is Stillness. Alone in a foreign country he finds solace in the strange music of nature hope in the words he can make of it. He envisions himself asleep in the depths of a canyon writing letters that will never arrive longing for the crickets to sing. The homeless snail climbing up the pillow stares upon the silvered star-tears on my eyes! [...] Oh I am alone! Who knows my to-night's feeling! He asks the homeless snail asks and his reader longs to answer.<p>With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript this edition of Yone Noguchi's <I>Seen and Unseen: Or Monologues of a Homeless Snail</I> is a classic of Japanese American literature reimagined for modern readers.<p>Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>