Selected Poems and Prose 1964-1984
by Yoshimasu Gozo
Translated by Richard Arno and others.
Anyone who has ever heard the extraordinary Yoshimasu Gozo's mesmerizing readings will never forget him. Yoshimasu breaks away from linear pseudorealism to offer a range of alternative voices and models which challenge our postmodernist passivity
souls running
running genealogy of a scream
this hell
I confess precisely
from Shinjuku to Kanda
when this paper touches air it burns.
"It cuts suddenly like a searchlight, which, turning, reveals some of pride-hungry postwar Japan's most seductive fantasies." From the introduction by Iijima
ISBN 0-942668-10-3
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