Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader (New Studies in Modern Japan)

This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry have been shortlisted for a range of poetry prizes, and he was awarded the 2011 Yomiuri Shinbun Prize for Travel writing. He has translated dozens of books and has authored or co-authored more than fifteen other books across various genres. He is, by his own introduction, a poet first, but is also a prolific book reviewer, an astute theorist, and an insightful critic. His presence and contributions have been profound in many countries around the globe. Contents Introduction Ch01. Suga-san and Columbus’ Dog Ch02. Just as Though a Number of the Tales of a Friend Remain within Me, While a Number of Others Have Been Forgotten Ch03. Keijirō Suga and the Reading Play Night on the Milky Way Train Ch04. Waves of Connection Ch05. The First Three Books by Keijirō Suga Ch06. On the Wisdom of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and on Border Crossing Ch07. 4 × 4 × 4 × 4 Ch08. Traveling, Troubling, and Translating Ch09. A Multilingual Archipelago Ch10. Tokyo Heterotopia—In Search of Asia Within Ch11. Keijirō Suga’s Coyote Days Ch12. Unknown Archipelagoes Ch13. “Satisfying Feeling of Nearness” Ch14. KS, Educator Translations My Poetics Strangeography Neither Bird nor Beast Like a Bird, Like a Beast One Living Deer, One Dead Deer Our Lives between Flora and Fauna Bibliography Index About the Editor About the Contributors This volume brings together an international group of scholars, artists, and translators to analyze Suga Keijiro's (b. 1958-) multifaceted work.