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A Kiss for the Absolute
Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
Taschenbuch von Shuzo Takiguchi
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Translated by Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780691263885
ISBN-10: 0691263884
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Takiguchi, Shuzo
Übersetzung: Bang, Mary Jo
Tanaka, Yuki
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Shuzo Takiguchi
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,286 kg
Artikel-ID: 128871951
Über den Autor
Translated by Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780691263885
ISBN-10: 0691263884
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Takiguchi, Shuzo
Übersetzung: Bang, Mary Jo
Tanaka, Yuki
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Shuzo Takiguchi
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,286 kg
Artikel-ID: 128871951
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