| Poems: New & Selected Contributor(s): Joritz-Nakagawa, Jane (Author), Rossiter, Paul (Selected by), Selland, Eric (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 490735925X ISBN-13: 9784907359256 Publisher: Isobar Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poems: New & Selected includes excerpts from Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's moving new poem, Plan B Audio, together with generous selections from her fourteen previous ground-breaking publications - ranging from Skin Museum (2006) to Distant Landscapes (2017) - and an insightful foreword by poet and translator Eric Selland, who writes: 'Joritz-Nakagawa's poetics is unique among the generation of poets who, like her, came of age during the period when the Language movement was at its peak. Hers is a radically open form - a framework through which the data of life, poetic themes and materials, freely migrate. She does not reject the personal, but she does not privilege it either. It is simply part of the data. And yet one senses a personal warmth, the presence of an intelligent observer in Jane's work. What we experience as readers is not "the death of the author" - the poetic subject has simply become more complex. For Jane, as with Blanchot, the poem never ends. It is an infinitely open system, always searching for that which is unexplainable and unattainable: the poem is constantly in search of itself.' |
Contributor Bio(s): Rossiter, Paul: - Paul Rossiter was born in Cornwall in 1947. He worked as a saxophonist in the UK until he moved to Japan in 1981. He retired from teaching English and applied linguistics at the University of Tokyo in 2012 and in the following year founded Isobar Press, specialising in English-language poetry from Japan. He has published seven books of poetry.Selland, Eric: - Eric Selland's translations of Modernist and contemporary Japanese poets have appeared in many journals and anthologies. He is the author of The Condition of Music (Sink Press, 2000), Inventions (Mindmade Books, 2007), Still Lifes (Hank's Original Loose Gravel Press, 2012), Object States (theenk Books, 2018) and two Isobar Press books: Arc Tangent (2013) and Beethoven's Dream (2015). His translation of The Guest Cat, a novel by Takashi Hiraide, is published by New Directions Books.Joritz-Nakagawa, Jane: - Jane Joritz-Nakagawa is the author of nine full-length poetry collections, as well as chapbooks, ebooks and essays. She has also edited an anthology of innovative transcultural poetry and essays by fifty women poets titled women: poetry: migration [an anthology]. Originally from the US, Jane lives in central Japan. |