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Minoru Yoshioka Kusudama (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Kusudama
- Title
- Kusudama
- Translator
- Eric Selland
- Contributor
- Eric Selland (Translated by)
- ISBN-10
- 4907359373
- EAN
- 9784907359379
- ISBN
- 9784907359379
- Genre
- Poetry & Drama
- Release Date
- 10/09/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Item Length
- 203mm
- UPC
- 9784907359379
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Kusudama
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Publisher
- Isobar Press
- Topic
- Poetry
- Item Width
- 203mm
- Item Weight
- 136g
- Number of Pages
- 78 Pages
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Kusudama. The classical meaning is a small perfumed pouch, the scent created through a mixing of herbs and flowers, but Yoshioka's childhood memories would associate this word with brightly colored papier-mache balls that were hung in the covered market places of prewar Tokyo, and which were placed in front of newly opened shops to attract customers. These kusudama were once a common sight in Tokyo, especially in Shitamachi, Tokyo's lower-town neighborhood located along the Sumida River, where Yoshioka grew up. Several meanings converge in this word: the exotic pouch or grab-bag containing all manner of things; the teeming, crowded and very worldly market place; and embedded within kusudama we find kusuri (medicine), which can be taken in the same way as the Native American term - a kind of magic - and tama, which means gem or, with a different written character, spirit or soul. (From the translator's afterword.) Minoru Yoshioka (1919-1990), the great late-modernist poet, published nine major collections between 1955 and 1984. After his second collection, Monks, won an important prize for younger poets in 1959, he was embraced by the avant-garde, and in the following years would influence a broad range of younger poets, including Kazuko Shiraishi and Takashi Hiraide. In the 1970s he began experimenting with appropriation and collage as a means of stepping outside his now well-established poetic language by 'borrowing the voices of others.' The culmination of these experiments is his magnum opus, Kusudama (1984), a multi-voiced collage of inner voices and quotations, here brilliantly translated by Eric Selland. In the 1980s the young Eric Selland was living in Tokyo and spending his Saturday afternoons at the Top Cafe in Shibuya, where Yoshioka regularly met with younger poets. While working on his translation of Kusudama Selland received much help and encouragement, and many answers to specific questions about the text from the author himself. The result was the remarkable translation of Kusudama published by Leech Books in Vancouver in 1991 - which Yoshioka, sadly, did not live to see. Now Eric Selland has revisited his translation for this second edition, lightly revising the text on occasions, adjusting the layout so that it more closely follows Yoshioka's original lineation, and adding some helpful notes. The result brings back into English-language circulation the most important work of one of Japan's most important late-twentieth-century modernist poets.
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Isobar Press
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9784907359379
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Book Title
Kusudama
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Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2021
Number of Pages
78 Pages
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203mm
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203mm
Item Weight
136g
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