Alice Iris Red Horse by Gozo Yoshimasu
Yoshimasu Gozo's groundbreaking poetry has spanned over half a century since the publication of his first book, Departure, in 1964. Much of his work is highly unorthodox: it challenges the print medium and language itself, and consequently Alice Iris Red Horse is as much a book on translation as it is a book in translation. Since the late '60s, Gozo has collaborated with visual artists and free-jazz musicians. In the 1980s he began creating art objects engraved on copper plates and later produced photographs and video works. Alice Iris Red Horse contains translations of Gozo's major poems, representing his entire career. Also included are illuminating interviews, reproductions of Gozo's artworks, and photographs of his performances. Translated by Jeffrey Angles, Richard Arno, Forrest Gander, Derek Gromadzki, Sawako Nakayasu, Sayuri Okamoto, Hiroaki Sato, Eric Selland, Auston Stewart, Kyoko Yoshida, and Jordan A. Y. Smith. Introduction and notes by Derek Gromadzki. Edited by Forrest Gander.
Gozo's poems often explore, like Basho's, moments in journeys that are at once physical and spiritualHis work sprawls, expanding and contracting like the universe. -- Forrest Gander
Born in 1939, influential and innovative, Gozo is widely known for his visual art and performances. -- Boston Review
He became famous for his avant-garde work, which employs chance operations and other techniques, pushing Japanese poetry in radically new directions. -- Guernica
Born in 1939, influential and innovative, Gozo is widely known for his visual art and performances. -- Boston Review
He became famous for his avant-garde work, which employs chance operations and other techniques, pushing Japanese poetry in radically new directions. -- Guernica
Gozo Yoshimasu, born in Tokyo, has given performances worldwide, and has received many literary and cultural awards, including the Takami Jun Prize, the Rekitei Prize, the Purple Ribbon, and the 50th Mainichi Art Award for Poetry. Forrest Gander (b. 1956) was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up, for the most part, in Virginia. With degrees in geology and English literature, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry, translation, fiction, and essays. Formerly A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander has been the recipient of grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Howard, Witter Bynner, and Whiting Foundations. His 2019 collection Be With won the Pulitzer prize for poetry and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811226042 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811226042 |
| Title | Alice Iris Red Horse |
| Author | Gozo Yoshimasu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2016-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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