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A Kiss for the Absolute

- Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
Af: Shuzo Takiguchi Engelsk Hardback

A Kiss for the Absolute

- Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
Af: Shuzo Takiguchi Engelsk Hardback
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The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English

In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a second earthquake—French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903–1979) began to write surrealist poems, translate surrealist writers, curate exhibitions of surrealist art, write art criticism, and, later, paint, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute, Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious, playful, and erotic poems, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet.

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The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English

In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a second earthquake—French Surrealism. Takiguchi (1903–1979) began to write surrealist poems, translate surrealist writers, curate exhibitions of surrealist art, write art criticism, and, later, paint, helping introduce Surrealism to Japan. He eventually became a major Japanese artistic and cultural figure whose collected works number fourteen volumes. In A Kiss for the Absolute, Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator Yuki Tanaka present the first collection in English of Takiguchi’s ingenious, playful, and erotic poems, complete with an introduction and the original Japanese texts on facing pages. Takiguchi’s obvious interest in style is perfectly wed to his daredevil rhetorical antics. His poems read as if they could have been written today, yet they are so original that they couldn’t have been written by anyone else. Bang and Tanaka’s skillful, colloquial translations offer English readers a long-overdue introduction to this important poet.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780691263892
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0691263892
Kategori: Japansk
Udg. Dato: 5 nov 2024
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 223mm
Højde: 146mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 5 nov 2024
Forfatter(e): Shuzo Takiguchi
Forfatter(e) Shuzo Takiguchi


Kategori Japansk


ISBN-13 9780691263892


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 208


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 223mm


Højde 146mm


Udg. Dato 5 nov 2024


Oplagsdato 5 nov 2024


Forlag Princeton University Press

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