Bathhouse and Other Tanka Winterrecepten van het collectief

Bathhouse and Other Tanka Winterrecepten van het collectiefTatsuhiko Ishii (trans. Hiroaki Sato) Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being, writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic form of the tanka into its own innovative contemporary tradition. What was originally a five line 5 7 5 7 7 syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line,

and salty memories

Van Astrid H

red and green

c) a log of disasters

some will make your fierce-pipped heart feel fiercer again

between dark humor and harsh political realities

The Nonconformist’s Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe’s reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today

but dreaming might not stop when violence starts

and excerpts from her in-progress novel Sugar Wars

and cameo appearances by a contortionist & a nurse sorceress)

This] poetry is thrillingly of the present moment

A queer-feminist author living in France and scholar of Caribbean culture and politics