Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi 1921 is a collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognizing as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the crosspollination of national poetries. Alongside a brilliant introduction in which he addresses the collective power of world literature he provides a selection of his best poems from a quarter century of work.ampampquotThe time is coming when as with international politics where the understanding of the East with the West is already an unmistakable fact the poetries of these two different worlds will approach of one another and exchange their cordial greetings.ampampquot A firm believer in plainspoken language and a practitioner of book verse Noguchi envisioned his art as a humble contribution to the union of East and West.