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This article presents information about the book "Anthology of Japanese Literature. Modern Japanese Literature," compiled and edited by Donald Keene. Japanese is one of the world's most important and engaging literatures. Japanese poetry is a poetry of sensibility. Keene really gets across the meaning and flavor of Japanese literature, in each example and as a whole. He even conveys some sense of its scope. There are sizable chunks of the novels and notebooks, a favorite form in Japan, whole plays, and many pages of poetry, almost all of it still poetry in English.