Wild Lines and Poetic Travels

A Keijiro Suga Reader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry have been shortlisted for a range of poetry prizes, and he was awarded the 2011 Yomiuri Shinbun Prize for Travel writing. He has translated dozens of books and has authored or co-authored more than fifteen other books across various genres. He is, by his own introduction, a poet first, but is also a prolific book reviewer, an astute theorist, and an insightful critic. His presence and contributions have been profound in many countries around the globe.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-07-29
Mått164 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt562 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in Modern Japan
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793607577

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Chapter 1: Suga-san and Columbus’ DogChapter 2: Just as Though a Number of the Tales of a Friend Remain within Me, While a Number of Others Have Been ForgottenChapter 3: Keijiro Suga and the Reading Play Night on the Milky Way TrainChapter 4: Waves of Connection: Canadian Poetry and the Poetry and Criticism of Keijiro SugaChapter 5: The First Three Books by Keijiro SugaChapter 6: On the Wisdom of Earth, Water, Fire, Water, and on Border Crossing: Reading Keijiro Suga’s Agend’Ars Poetry collectionChapter 7: 4x4x4x4: Reflections on Keijiro Suga’s Poetics in PracticeChapter 8: Traveling, Troubling, and Translating: Reading Suga Keijiro with/against Hiroki AzumaChapter 9: A Multilingual Archipelago: Keijiro Suga’s Journey through Hawaii on to the CaribbeanChapter 10: Tokyo Heterotopia—In Search of Asia WithinChapter 11: Keijiro Suga’s Coyote DaysChapter 12: Unknown Archipelagoes: Travelogues and Assemblages in the writings of Keijiro SugaChapter 13: “Satisfying Feeling of Nearness”: Fact a

Keijiro Suga is a force of nature, a burst of energy. One minute he’s a poet, the next a translator, then a travel writer, an experimental playwright, a philosopher—all of it carried out across a crazy blur of languages, not all of them human. In this delightful book, some of Japan’s most creative poets, novelists, and translators join with an international group of scholars to offer harmonic counterpoints to Suga’s multilingual melodies. We also get a generous sampling of Suga’s own essays, appearing in English for the first time.