Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1890650536
ISBN 13
9781890650537
Category
JBLiterature
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Pages
120
Description
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander. If you think of haiku when you think of Japanese poetry, this book will be a huge surprise. The strange and wild poems of Kiwao Nomura deal with sex and loss and memory by making unpredictable leaps of association. Imagine Fugazi singing philosophy and you get close. Inspired by shamanism, Kiwao Nomura sounds like nothing you've ever heard before and like something you want to hear over and over. He is one of the two or three of the most influential living Japanese poets, and his work will be as stunningly original and compelling to contemporary Americans as haiku was to the late Victorians. Anyone interested in making contact with Japanese culture will want to read SPECTACLE & PIGSTY. - from Amzon
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