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| From Rush Mats Hiroya Takagai Translated by Eric Selland The Condition of Movement The walls of the house The sliding partitions ([The going around] of things that do not move things
Takagai Hiroya was born in 1961, Takagai is the youngest disciple of Yoshioka Minoru, Japan’s most important post-modernist and the inheritor of Japan’s rich French-influenced writing tradition. Takagai is also influenced by Pound and Mallarmé. His books are Mezzanine (1984), Deep Marsh (1986), Rush Mats (1987), and Spirit of Life (1994). These last two were published by Japan’s major poetry press, Shichosha, which has increased his critical acclaim. In 1997 he was invited to take part in the Djerassi Foundation’s poetry translation residency along with Jacques Roubaud. Eric Selland is a poet and translator living in the San Francisco Bay
Area. He has translated a number of modernist and post-modernist Japanese
poets, including Yoshioka Minoru. He has a book of his own prose poems,
The Condition of Music, coming out in fall 1999. |