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Issue IX, Volume IV : May 2013

Featured Guest Editor: Alan Botsford - Japanese Poems in Translation

AlanBotsford Alan Botsford has published two poetry collections, as well as the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (2010). He is Associate Professor of American Literature at Kanto Gakuin University and serves as editor of Poetry Kanto, an annual bi-lingual journal concerned with the interplay of voices East, West, and beyond.

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Tanikawa Shuntaro, translated by Elliott & Kawamura - Poetry

TANIKAWASHUNTARO Tanikawa Shuntaro. Across the 60 years of Tanikawa Shuntaro’s publishing career he became and remains the most widely-read of all post-war Japanese poets

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Abe Hinako, translated by Hiroaki Sato

AbeHinako Abe Hinako (born 1953). “Born in Samarkand, Uzbek,” she once said of her life, “I moved south through China during the Cultural Revolution

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Nomura Kiwao, translated by Jordan A. Yamaji Smith - Poetry

NomuraKiwao Nomura Kiwao studied Japanese literature at Waseda University and pursued doctoral studies in French literature at Meiji University.

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Hirata Toshiko, translated by Jeffrey Angles - Poetry

HirataToshiko Hirata Toshiko (1955-) is a prominent Japanese poet and novelist. During the 1980s, she, along with ITO Hiromi, emerged as one of the

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Tanaka Yosuke, translated by Jeffrey Angles - Poetry

TanakaYosuke Tanaka Yosuke (1969- ) is a research scientist specializing in molecular cell biology at the University of Tokyo.

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Takahashi Mutsuo, translated by Jeffrey Angles - Poetry

TakahashiMutsuo Takahashi Mutsuo (1937-) is one of Japan’s most prominent living poets. Since first attracting the attention of the Japanese literary world

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Hachikai Mimi, translated by Miho Nonaka - Poetry

HachikaiMimi Hachikai Mimi was born in 1974, in Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. She received a Master’s degree in Ancient Japanese literature

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Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, translated by Leith Morton - Poetry

YotsumotoYasuhiro Yotsumoto Yasuhiro was born in Osaka in 1959, and was educated at Sophia University in Tokyo, and at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Minashita Kiriu, translated by Leith Morton

MinashitaKiriu Minashita Kiriu was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1970 and was educated at Waseda University. Her first book of poetry Onsoku Heiwa

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Sugimoto Maiko, translated by Carden & Tarcov - Poetry

SugimotoMaiko Sugimoto Maiko (b. 1973, Nagano) published her first chapbook in 1998.

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