New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2013. Featuring twelve essays from twenty-five years of Abe's prolific career, including his 1944 "Poetry and Poets (Consciousness and the Unconscious)" and his 1969 "The Frontier Within, Part II", this anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Abe as critic and intellectual. Richard F. Calichman's substantial introduction connects Abe's theoretical work to a broader understanding of his fiction, as well as a richer portrait of Japan's postwar imagination.